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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

By Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cover: Chapter 2 illustration: a man in a doorway, a monstrous shadow on the pavement (1904 edition) by Charles Raymond Macauley (1871–1934) · Wikimedia Commons (scan from the Internet Archive of the 1904 illustrated edition) · Public domain

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Story of the Door
  2. 2: Search for Mr. Hyde
  3. 3: Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease
  4. 4: The Carew Murder Case
  5. 5: Incident of the Letter
  6. 6: Incident of Dr. Lanyon
  7. 7: Incident at the Window
  8. 8: The Last Chapter
  9. 9: Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative
  10. 10: Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case