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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

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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
  • Length25,463 words
  • Chapters10
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • 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.

  1. 01STORY OF THE DOOR
  2. 02SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
  3. 03DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
  4. 04THE CAREW MURDER CASE
  5. 05INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
  6. 06INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
  7. 07INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
  8. 08THE LAST NIGHT
  9. 09DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE
  10. 10HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE

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