The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Penguin Classics · first published 1886 · 224 pages
A London lawyer looks into the tie between his respectable friend, a doctor, and a violent stranger who comes and goes from the doctor's house.
Short and tightly made, it unfolds like a case file, and the fog-bound streets do much of the work.
For a night of fog and gas lamps.
About this book
Mr. Utterson, a reserved lawyer, is troubled by a will his old friend Dr. Jekyll has drawn up in favor of a stranger named Edward Hyde. Hyde is small, brutal and hard to describe, and everyone who meets him feels a revulsion they cannot explain. Utterson sets out to learn what hold this man has over his friend, and the answer is slow to surface. This edition gathers other dark tales by the author alongside it.