Catching up on my reading
 

I am in the process of going back and reading books that i missed, being a Lit major, that I consider "classics" or worthwhile. i just took "The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde" by Robert Lewis Stevenson out of the Mark Twain Library and read it.
I was also a Psych major and this work interested me from that point of view.
When a literary work contains one sentence that had 2 semi-colons and 4 commas you know it will be a labor. A sentence of 80+ words was common.
Luckily it was only 75 pages long. I enjoyed the novel but was turned off by the stilted syntax and overall dryness of the prose. On a psych level it was a clear Super Ego/Id conflict. It was ground breaking in it's time but it's use of language was off putting.