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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, prepared as a public-domain Orakel edition with 10 chapter-aware companion links.
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STORY OF THE DOOR
STORY OF THE DOOR from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent
Open2SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night however, as soon as the cloth was
Open3DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed. This was no new arrangement, but a thing that had befallen many scores of times. Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well. Hosts loved to detain the
Open4THE CAREW MURDER CASE
THE CAREW MURDER CASE from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and startling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone upstairs to bed about eleven. Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the
Open5INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
INCIDENT OF THE LETTER from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms. The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than
Open6INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Time ran on; thousands of pounds were offered in reward, for the death of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury; but Mr. Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police as though he had never existed. Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man’s cruelty, at once so callous and violent; of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have
Open7INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It chanced on Sunday, when Mr. Utterson was on his usual walk with Mr. Enfield, that their way lay once again through the by-street; and that when they came in front of the door, both stopped to gaze on
Open8THE LAST NIGHT
THE LAST NIGHT from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner, when he was surprised to receive a visit from
Open9DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE
DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion, Henry Jekyll. I was a good deal surprised by this; for we were by no means in the habit of correspondence; I had seen the man, dined with him, indeed, the night before; and I could imagine nothing in our intercourse that should justify formality of
Open10HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I was born in the year 18— to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellowmen, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as has made the happiness of many, but such as I
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