Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeA kind and well-respected doctor turns himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he's created. |
Contents
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Mr Seek Meets Mr Hyde | 13 |
Another Vicious Attack | 21 |
A New Life for Jekyll | 29 |
A Prisoner in His Own Home | 37 |
Poole Begs for Help | 42 |
Dr Lanyons Story | 53 |
Henry Jckylls Confession | 61 |
A Fateful Crossroads | 70 |
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Page 55 - The more I thought about it the more certain I became that I was equal to it.
Page 14 - I suppose, Lanyon, that you and I must be the two oldest friends Henry Jekyll has?
Page 73 - I saw my life äs a whole: I followed it from the days of childhood, when I had walked with my father's hand, and through the self-denying toils of my professional life [...]« (S. 70). Genau diese paternale Führung ist durch das Erscheinen des Mr. Hyde außer Kraft gesetzt. In dem Doppelgänger entsteht dafür ein »Sohn«, der sich der Kontrolle seines »Vaters...
Page 31 - He meant to murder you. You have had a fine escape." " I have had what is far more to the purpose," returned the doctor, solemnly ; " I have had a lesson — oh, God, Utterson, what a lesson I have had ! " And he covered his face for a moment with his hands. On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a word or two with Poole. " By the bye," said he, " there was a letter handed in to-day ; what was the messenger like?
Page 68 - Jekyll was no worse; he woke again to his good qualities seemingly unimpaired; he would even make haste, when it was possible, to undo the evil done by Hyde. And thus his conscience slumbered.
Page 21 - I have been wanting to speak to you Jekyll .... You know that will of yours?
Page 10 - ... the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man's check for close upon a hundred pounds. But he was quite easy and sneering. ' Set your mind at rest,' says he, ' I will stay with you till the banks open and cash the check myself.' So we all set off, the doctor, and the child's father, and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of the night in my chambers ; and next day, when we...
Page 9 - And all the time ... we were keeping the women off him as best we could, for they were as wild as harpies.
Page 26 - I shall say nothing more until I have seen the body." Utterson hurried through breakfast. Then he drove to the police station, where the body had been carried. As soon as he saw the murdered man he said, "I recognize him! I am sorry to say that this is Sir Danvers Carew, the MP" The police officer exclaimed, "Good God, sir.
Page 62 - My studies shed a strong light on the constant war between the good and evil in me.