| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 151156766X ISBN-13: 9781511567664 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.98 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1886 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Gothic - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 950 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6" W x 9" (0.19 lbs) 56 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, 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 doors of one for twenty years. But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. |