A tall gentleman in a top hat and dark frock coat watches from the shadows of a gas-lit London street as a small, grinning man in a bowler hat turns a key in a battered door — El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde

A respectable doctor invents a drug that lets him become someone else — and can't always control when it wears off.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, told for Level 3. A lawyer investigates his old friend's strange new companion, a small violent man everyone in London seems to fear, and the truth is worse than any of his guesses.

16 chapters · 15,740 words

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