![]() ![]() ![]() The lawyer thinks his friend is being blackmailed.One day, the lawyer is asked to identify the body of a murdered man, Sir Danvers Carew, one of Utterson's clients. Utterson has heard bad things of Hyde and disliked him at first sight. Utterson is concerned because Jekyll has written a will that leaves all his money to his new partner Mr. Jekyll gave up his regular practice to experiment with non-traditional medicine. Utterson is a London lawyer who is a friend of Dr. and shows no signs of falling out of fashion.Mr. Hyde has been in continual publication for over 120 years. But the real (shilling) shocker is that this piece of pulp fiction has remained totally famous and totally respectable. But people forget that this novel was written as a "shilling shocker." Popular during the Victorian era (the mid-1800s to about 1900), shilling shockers were short, graphic, and inexpensive books eagerly consumed by the masses-like those cheap romance novels. Hyde was published in 1886 and was instrumental in launching the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, to literary fame. Hyde -Character List of the Story-Themes-Twelve Illustrations.Strange Case of Dr. ![]()
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