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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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The narrative follows a London lawyer who investigates a strange link between a respected physician and a smaller, violent figure, assembling accounts, testimonies and physical evidence that reveal increasing menace. Through eyewitness chapters, a medical colleague's testimony, and finally the physician's own written confession, the story explains how experimental chemistry allowed the doctor to separate and briefly assume a darker persona, with catastrophic moral and physical consequences. Themes probe the duality of human nature, the danger of unchecked scientific curiosity, and the social pressures of respectability; the episodic structure pieces together mystery into a moral and psychological disclosure.

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Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Release date: October 1, 1992 [eBook #42]
Most recently updated: May 22, 2023

Language: English

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The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson