Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson’s short novel of a London lawyer, Mr Utterson, who looks into the strange hold that a brutal stranger, Edward Hyde, seems to have over his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll.

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Famous quotes

• “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

  Story of the DoorIn context

  • Morality

• It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity

  Story of the DoorIn context

  • Friendship

• It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it

  Remarkable Incident of Dr. LanyonIn context

  • Knowledge

• Man is not truly one, but truly two.

  Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context

  • Character
  • Good & Evil

• The doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man’s shoulders, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

  Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context

  • Life & Death

• All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil

  Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the CaseIn context

  • Good & Evil

Contents

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