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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Level 3
Retold by John Escott
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
(scanned by sem911)
Contents
Pearson Education Limited
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Essex CM20 2JE, England
and Associated Companies throughout the world.
page
ISBN 0 582 42700 2
Introduction
v
Chapter 1
The Door
1
This edition first published 2000
7 9 10 8 6
Chapter 2
Mr Enfield's Story
2
Copyright © Penguin Books Ltd 2000
Illustrations by Tudor Humphries
Cover design by Bender Richardson White
Chapter 3
The Cheque
5
Chapter 4
Who is Mr Hyde?
6
Chapter 5
After Dinner
12
Typeset by Pantek Arts Ltd, Maidstone, Kent
Set in ll/14pt Bembo
Printed in China
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Chapter 6
The Carew Murder
13
Chapter 7
The Letter
18
Chapter 8
Dr Lanyon
23
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in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the
prior written permission of the Publishers.
Chapter 9
At the Window
27
Chapter 10 The Last Night
.
28
Chapter 11 Dr Lanyon's Story
36
Published by Pearson Education Limited in association with
Penguin Books Ltd, both companies being subsidiaries of Pearson Plc
Chapter 12 Henry Jekyll's Story
41
Chapter 13 The End of the Story
45
Activities
51
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Introduction
Mr Hyde was pale and small, and he had an ugly smile . . . But these
were not important matters. They did not explain the feelings of hate and
fear that Mr Utterson had. There was something more. The lawyer could
not find a name for it.
'It is something about the man — some terrible evil,'he thought. 'Oh, ,
my poor Henry fekyll!There is evil in the face of your new friend!'
Mr Utterson is worried about Dr Jekyll. Why has the doctor
made a friend of the frightening Mr Hyde ? Who is the evil little
man ? Where did he come from ? And most important of all, why
does he seem to have power over the good, honest Dr Jekyll?
Then comes the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, and suddenly
everybody in London is looking for Mr Hyde — the murderer.
But the evil little man has disappeared.
Or has he ?
As Mr Utterson tries to find answers to these questions, he
learns the terrible secret of Dr Jekyll's dangerous experiments.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, in
1850. In 1867 he went to Edinburgh University, but he really
wanted to be a writer. His parents suggested studying law and he
did that. But he continued to write.
In 1875 Stevenson went to live in northern France. There he
met an American woman called Fanny Osbourne. Fanny was
married with two children, and she was ten years older than
Stevenson. She came from Indiana, in the United States. Fanny
Osbourne and Stevenson fell in love. Fanny left her husband and,
in 1880, she and Stevenson were able to get married. The wedding
was in the city of San Francisco, on the west coast of America.
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Stevenson and Fanny were married for fourteen years. They
travelled a lot during that time — to Scotland, France,
Switzerland, New York and the South Seas.
Stevenson suffered from bad health. He spent most of his life
trying to find a warm and comfortable place to live. He lived in
Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, for a short time.
Then, in 1888, he and Fanny went to live in Samoa. He died
there in 1894, at the age of forty-four.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote travel books, poems and
stories. His first story book, Treasure Island (1883), was finished in
Switzerland. It is probably his most famous book, and children all
over the world love it. Stevenson first wrote it for Fanny
Osbourne's young son, Lloyd.
Other books by Robert Louis Stevenson are Travels with a
Donkey in Cevennes (1879), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), a
book of poems, and Kidnapped (1886). Kidnapped is an exciting
adventure story about David Balfour. It was followed (but not
immediately) by Catriona (1893); this continues Balfour's story.
The Black Arrow (1888) and The Master of Ballantrae (1889) are
two more of Stevenson's adventure stories.
Chapter 1 The Door
Mr John Utterson was a lawyer and he lived in London. He seemed
to be a cold man, without feeling. He never smiled, and he spoke
only when it was necessary. But people liked him. There was
something in his eyes that showed kindness. It showed his
understanding of other people. Men and women came to him about
the law, and he helped them all. It did not matter who they were.
He lived a quiet and simple life. He enjoyed the theatre, but he
did not visit it any more. His friends were people from his family,
and very old friends from his old school.
Then there was Mr Enfield. Other people could see no reason
for Mr Utterson and Mr Richard Enfield to be friends. Mr
Enfield was quite different from Mr Utterson. He was younger,
and enjoyed going to the theatre, to parties and good restaurants.
'Why are they friends?' people asked. 'What do they talk
about when they are together ?'
And the reply was: 'If you see them on their Sunday walks,
they never say any thing. They don't seem to enjoy themselves.'
But the two men thought that their Sunday walks were an
important part of the week. They enjoyed being together, and
they enjoyed the walks. But they were often silent walks.
On one of their walks the two men found themselves in a
narrow street in one of the busier parts of London. It was a quiet
street on a Sunday, but during the week the little shops on each
side were very busy. Because the shops were successful, they were
clean and brightly painted. The road was clean. It was a pleasant
street to walk along.
Near one end of this street, there was a break in the line of
shops. There was a narrow entrance to a courtyard, and next to it
was the windowless end of a tall, dark, ugly house. A door in this
When Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) first went into English
bookshops, Stevenson and Fanny were living in Bournemouth,
England.
' The idea for the story came from a dream,' he told people. It
is a mystery story, and the mystery is Mr Hyde. Who is he? What
is he? The book is not like a detective story.We are not trying to
find out the name of the murderer. In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde we
know who the murderer is. It is Hyde.
There have been many films and plays of the story of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde. It was, and still is, one of Robert Louis Stevenson's
most popular stories.
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