CHAPTER 6 - The face at the window

Mr Uttenson and Mr Enfield were walking across the side-street and looked the mysterious door that led to the laboratory at back of Dr Jekyll's home. He saw the window of the study opened and then, saw Dr Jekyll sat. They began to talk but suddenly the window was shuted with a bang.  We represented this chapter with a video! We hope that it liked you!

CHAPTER 5 - The dead of a friend

Mr Hyde was disapeared and nobody knew something about him. Dr Jekyll invited hid old friends to dinner, but one day, he refused the visites of Mr Utterson, his servent, Poole, said that he was very ill. Days later, Mr Utterson went to Dr Lanyon's house and he told him that now they weren't friends. Lanyon confesed to Mr Utterson that he was ill and have few weeks of life. Then Mr Utterson wrote a envelope to Dr Jekyll asking for this way of life and because he refused him. Dr Jekyll answered that he didn't want to know anything about his friend.

After weeks, Dr Lanyon died and Mr Utterson received a letter from his dead friend before the sad death and he said that he shouldn't open the envelope after the disapearance of Dr Jekyll.

CHAPTER 4 - Doctor Jekyll receives a letter

Mr Utterson visited Dr Jekyll and saw his laboratory for the first time. The doctor shows him a letter  that pertains from a murder, but this envelope was delivered hand to hand. Mr Utterson was afraid because the reputation and the life of his friend was in danger. Poole, the Dr. Jekyll's servant tell him that this letter was given from the postman and Utterson think that if nobody inside into the house from out, perhaps the letter has written inside.

When he was at home, tell it to his clerk Mr Guest. This night he received a letter from Dr Jekyll to dinner in his home. Mrt Guess compared the letter of Dr Jekyll and the letter of the murderer and saw that were similiars! Perhaps, Jekyll wrote the letter from a murderer? 

CHAPTER 3 - The Carew murder

More or less one year after the last events, a servant girl see the murder of Danvers Carew. She saw as Mr Hyde kill him with a Doctor Jekyll's stick and forgot a half of it at the crim scene. The murderer had a letter for Mr Utterson, he was his client and police called the lawyer. He reconized the body and the weapon of the crime, it's a Dr Jekyll's stick. Mr Utterson and the inspector went to the Hyde's adress and his servent open the door. The men went inside his flat and found the other half o stick and a cheque book. Mr Hyde was the most wanted man of the city.

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CHAPTER 2 - In search of Mr Hyde

Mr Utterson have a envelope of Doctor Jekyll into a unlocked cupboard that says this:

"If I die, or if I disappear for more than three months, I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde". 

He didn't know what's happening and went to see his old friend Dr Lanyon and ask him about Dr Jekyll. He said that have ever seen Dr Jekyll since he know that the doctor developed unscientific ideas. Mr Utterson asked about Mr Hyde too but his old friend didn't meet him. One night, Utterson decided to wait him to the side-street and saw him. He was so rude and bad-looking. He wasn't a good feeling to Mr Utterson, and turned the key in the lock and disappeared into the house. This week, Doctor Jekyll gave a dinner for a old friends, incluids Dr Lanyon, and Mr Uttersion asked about Hyde but Doctor Jekyll didn't want to tell him anything about this man and make promise to Utterson if something happens to him, Mr Hyde would inherits his money.

CHAPTER 1 - The mysterious door

In this chapter we know Mr Utterson, a hepful and shy lawyer and his cousin and best friend, Richard Enfield, that is a different person from Mr Utterson. They walked across the side-street in London and Enfield tell to Utterson a story about a mysterious door in this street. A cruel madman bumped a little girl and after, he left her in the middle of the street but  Mr Enfield caught the cruel man and have to give money to the girl's family. The strange and cruel man called Mr Hyde, that go into de mysterious door and back with a cheque from Coutt's Bank. This cheque have a well-known man in London that donated his money to the charity. He's Doctor Jekyll and Mr Utterson know who is him.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the autor

Robert Louis Stevenson was born November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the only son of respectable middle-class parents. Throughout his childhood, he suffered chronic health problems that confined him to bed. In his youth, his strongest influence was that of his nurse, Allison Cunningham, who often read Pilgrim's Progress and The Old Testament to him. In 1867, Stevenson entered Edinburgh University as a science student, where it was tacitly understood that he would follow his father's footsteps and become a civil engineer. However, Robert was at heart a romantic, and while ostensibly working towards a science degree, he spent much of his time studying French Literature, Scottish history, and the works of Darwin and Spencer. When he confided to his father that he did not want to become an engineer and instead wished to pursue writing, his father was quite upset. They settled on a compromise, where Robert would study for the Bar exam and if his literary ambitions failed, he would have a respectable profession to fall back on. 

In order to fully comprehend the world in which Stevenson was raised, it is necessary to understand that there were two Edinburghs, both of which helped mold his personality and life outlook. On the one hand, there was the respectable, conventional, deeply religious, and polite New Town. On the other hand was a much more bohemian Edinburgh, with brothels, shady characters and underhanded dealings. The juxtaposition of these starkly different parts of town made a deep impression on Stevenson and strengthened his fascination with the duality of human nature, later providing the theme for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In the fall of 1873, Stevenson fell ill, suffering from nervous exhaustion and a severe chest condition. His doctor ordered him to take an extended period of rest abroad. For the next six months, he convalesced in the South of France, and worked on essays. On his return to Edinburgh, he spent much of his time writing book reviews and articles and experimenting with short stories. Slowly but surely, he earned a name for himself in journalism and his pieces began appearing in distinguished journals such as The Fortnightly Review. While establishing his name as a writer, Stevenson met an American married woman, Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, who was ten years his senior. Osbourne had traveled to Europe in an attempt to escape her estranged husband's influence. For three years, Stevenson, who was still in ill health, continued his relationship with her and eventually followed her to San Francisco, where she divorced her husband and married Stevenson in May 1880.

In 1878, Stevenson published An Inland Voyage, which recounts a canoeing holiday in Belgium. In August 1880, the Stevensons returned to England. He and his wife wintered in the South of France and lived in England from 1880-1887, a period of time was marked by great literary achievement. Stevenson's first novel, Treasure Island, was published in 1883, followed by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) andKidnapped (1886). Stevenson's work was highly popular and he received great critical acclaim.

Upon his father's death in 1887, Stevenson chose to leave England and sailed for America, where he stayed for a year. In May 1888, accompanied by his wife, stepson, and mother, he set sail for the South Seas. Stevenson grew so enchanted by the life of the South Seas that in December 1889 he bought an estate in Apia, Samoa, convinced that he could never again endure the harsh winters of his native Scotland or England. Apia was a perfect location because the climate was tropical but not wild, the people were friendly and hard working, and there was good postal service in the country.

Stevenson lived at his 300-acre estate, Vailima, in the hills of Apia until his death in 1894. While in Vailima, Stevenson wrote a great deal, completing two of his finest novellas, "The Beach of Falesa" and "The Ebb Tide", two novels, The Wrecker and Catriona, the short stories "The Bottle Imp," "The Isle of voices," and "The Waif Woman." He also published short works under the title Fables. Stevenson left a significant amount of work unfinished, including St. Ives, The Young Chevalier,Heathercat, and Weir of Hermiston, which he worked on enthusiastically until the day of his death. On December 3, 1894 he dictated another installment of the novel, seemed in excellent spirits, and was speaking with his wife in the evening when he felt a violent pain in his head and lost consciousness. Stevenson had suffered a brain hemorrhage and died a few hours later at the age of forty-four.

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