Roman poet Horace in his poem Odes on male virtue closes with the line "seldom has vengeance abandoned a wicked man through lameness of foot though he has got a start on her. A large, easy to read font and left-justified text for children who struggle to access the printed word. Jekyll’s death is not merely accidental, but a consequence of his initial misguided conclusions, the limitations of which his experience as Hyde would make evident. Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.

Book of Daniel 5:5 and 5:23, King Belshazzar of Babylon sees "fingers of a man's hand" writing on the wall, a sign of God's coming punishment of Belshazzar for having raised himself "up against the lord of heaven. This was nine years before Freud conducted his first psychoanalysis, and decades before Jung introduced the concept of the shadow. Utterson visits Jekyll, who shows Utterson a note, allegedly written to Jekyll by Hyde, apologising for the trouble that he has caused.Nothing in this Agreement limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or our liability to you in the event of death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees agents or sub-contractors. But, I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if I am taken away, Utterson, I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his rights for him.

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Written in just a few days, Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella is a perfect representation of Victorian duality and ambiance, as characters struggle with moral vices and hunt a killer under the oppressive London fog. 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.perhaps in reference to the powderpost beetle which eats oak flooring and was probably a common sight before modern insect control.