title: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: and other stories
author:  Robert Louis Stevenson 
description: Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book <i>An Inland Voyage</i> (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, <i>Treasure Island</i> (1883), <i>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</i>, and <i>Kidnapped</i> (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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  Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 
  By Robert Louis Stevenson
  
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  STORY OF THE DOOR
  MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged coun-
  tenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and 
  embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, 
  long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly 
  meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something 
  eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed 
  which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke 
  not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but 
  more often and loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere 
  with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a 
  taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had 
  not crossed the doo