Today, we're far more laid back, but it's important to realize that this book was written for a different time and place. To the Victorians, manners were everything, and the appearance of being prim and proper counted for a whole heck of a lot. To be sure, Stevenson's work is full of antiquated structures and expressions, but it's also very Victorian in another sense, too: it minds its manners. What that means for us modern readers is that this book's style comes across as, well, old. On the one hand, he's writing in the Victorian era, for a Victorian audience. In a book about the duality of human experience, we think it's only fitting that Robert Louis Stevenson uses a kind of split approach when it comes to the writing style of Strange Case of Dr.
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