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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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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 symb…
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- AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
- SourceProject Gutenberg #43
- Length25,612 words · 1h 42m of reading
- Chapters10
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-12
Contents
10 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01STORY OF THE DOOR
- 02SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
- 03DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
- 04THE CAREW MURDER CASE
- 05INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
- 06INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
- 07INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
- 08THE LAST NIGHT
- 09DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE
- 10HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
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