Not what I Expected...

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I just finished "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's a pretty famous classic, so I bet at least most of you have heard of it. I know I thought I'd heard loads about it before I actually read it... but as it turns out I didn't know absolutely everything there was to know about the story like I thought I would. For starters, I expected the main character to be Dr. Jekyll and for the book to largely deal with his struggle being two distinct persons and being addicted to his second personality... but actually the story's main character was someone on the outside named Mr. Utterson. And the fact that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were the same person was a "big reveal/surprise" (wow, it's been blown for pretty much everyone! lol) towards the end. Oh, and it's also really short... technically a novella. I thought it was a full-length novel. It was still pretty interesting, and I liked it a whole lot more than most classics I've read... but still. I thought that I knew a lot about this book... but yet I was wrong on so many counts. Have you ever heard loads about a book and then when you actually read it for yourself found it wasn't much like you expected at all?