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Tag: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

On September 17, 2019December 13, 2025 By LaurieIn English LIteratureLeave a comment

I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde none could come near me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde was pure evil. What a …

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