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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

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  • 10 chapters

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this novella in a matter of weeks in the autumn of 1885, reportedly after a fever dream, and it became an instant sensation on its publication in January 1886 — within months "Jekyll and Hyde" had entered the language as shorthand for a divided self. Told largely through the eyes of a cautious, unimaginative lawyer piecing together a friend's ruin, it's a tightly wound mystery before it's anything else, and one of the foundational texts of Victorian Gothic horror.

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Contents

  1. Opening pages
  2. 1STORY OF THE DOOR
  3. 2SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
  4. 3DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
  5. 4THE CAREW MURDER CASE
  6. 5INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
  7. 6INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
  8. 7INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
  9. 8THE LAST NIGHT
  10. 9DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE
  11. 10HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE

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