The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
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A reason to turn the page
Edward Hyde lies twitching in a man’s clothes, a crushed phial in his hand—death or something more sinister?
Discovery 6 of 15Right in the middle there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on his back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.