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Blurb: The story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is familiar through its many adapta-tions, but the original short novel exerts a logical mystery. special impact as a brilliantly told psycho- Robert Louis Stevenson puts forth a strange case of intrigue and murder in nineteenth-century London, using the tale to explore the nature of man's character as well. Presented from a number of vantage points, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is all the more chilling for its revelations about the inner struggle between a man's beneficent and malevolent sides.
The story centers on Dr. Henry Jekyll, an eminent if somewhat eccentric physi-cian, and the strange goings-on in his elegantly appointed home and the decrepit surgical dissecting room that lies across the courtyard. One night, Jekyll's old friend, Gabriel John Utterson, sees a ghastly, violent incident involving a young girl. He discovers the perpetrator to be one Edward Hyde—a shriveled, misshapen ogre, who seems, incredibly, to be an intimate of the respectable Dr. Jekyll.
Disturbed but fatefully curious,
Utterson delves into the doings of the dangerous Mr. Hyde, whose very appearance sends a chill through his soul. Utterson persists, only to make an onrushing series of harrowing discoveries that will change his understanding of the world forever.“
“'Ah, that's not Jekyll's voice it's Hyde's!' cried Utterson. 'Down with the door, Poole!'
Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges.
A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.
-from THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE”