The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Published: 1886 The classic tale of a man struggling with two sides of himself. Dr. Jeckyll has lived a respectable life, but he’s always felt something wicked lurking very close to the surface. He creates a potion to try and restrict this evil part of himself, but it instead brings that evil to the surface and transforms him, in both mind and body, into Mr. Hyde. This is all pieced together over the course of the novella from the view of a London lawyer, and old friend, named Mr. Utterson. After reading American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson’s…