He put the glass to his lips, and drank at one gulp. A cry followed; he
reeled, staggered, clutched at the table and held on, staring with
injected eyes, gasping with open mouth; and as I looked there came, I
thought, a change... A series of brutal incidents - a murder, the
trampling of a child - leads lawyer Mr Utterson to try to find out more
about the repulsive perpetrator Mr Hyde. More importantly, he begins to
question how Hyde is connected to Utterson's old friend, the respectable
Dr Jekyll. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel, with its concern with
doubles and the 'dual nature of man', takes the reader into the darker
regions of late Victorian London, as Utterson begins to unravel the
mystery and confront the horror of Hyde's true identity. This Collins
Classroom Classics edition includes an introduction and glossary to
support students, written by an experienced teacher.