THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
(1850–1894)
created by Savino Carrella

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"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a psychologic illustrating the complex quality of man’s nature. The scene is London. Dr. Jekyll is a of position and good character, a portly, kindly man. In his youth, however, he that he had strong capacities for evil, which he succeeded suppressing for years. His professional tastes lead him to in drugs, and he hits on one he is changed physically so that his lower nature external dress. He becomes Mr. Hyde, a pale, misshapen, creature of evil and violent passions. Again and again Dr. Jekyll effects this , and gives his bad side more and more . His friend Utterson, a lawyer, is by Jekyll’s will in favor of Hyde, and seeks to the mystery. The brutal murder of Sir Danvers , which is traced to Hyde, who of course disappears, to the mystery and horror. At last, by the of letters left by Dr. Lanyon, another of Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer , to whom he has revealed the secret and is killed by the shock of the discovery, the strange facts are . Utterson breaks into Jekyll’s laboratory, to find Hyde, who has just taken his own ; and Jekyll is gone forever.
(adapted from "The Reader’s Digest of Books" by Helen Rex Keller)