The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: The Original 1886 Unabridged Edition – A Gothic Classic Exploring Duality, Identity, and the Human Psyche (Grapevine Edition)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

“I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o’clock of a black winter morning,

The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.

I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.