The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 11 · 899 sentences

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Subjects: Horror tales · London (England) — Fiction · Multiple personality — Fiction · Physicians — Fiction

Words worth knowing: baize · pedant · disagreeably · reputable · inordinate · malefactor · bigness · qualm

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Contents STORY OF THE DOOR SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE THE CAREW MURDER CASE INCIDENT OF THE LETTER INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW THE LAST NIGHT DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE STORY OF THE DOOR 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 symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.

He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.

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