Lawyer Mr. Utterson is gripped by a very strong discomfort with Dr. Jekyll’s new friend Mr. Hyde, to whom Dr. Jekyll has bequeathed everything he owns. It is rumored that Mr. Hyde trampled a child in the street. Lawyer Utterson begins to have nightmares about this unusually ugly and unsympathetic man. At the same time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde seem inseparable.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s short novel Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is unique as a classic with a title that has become a fixed expression in a multitude of languages. One of the greatest classics of British literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850-1894 was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson is on the list of world literature’s 30 most translated authors and he has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway and Bertolt Brecht. His most famous works are the gothic sci-fi short novel Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, as well as the adventure novel Treasure Island.