• English Literature
• Novels
• Scottish Literature

• Type: Mezzobula
• Length: 109 pages

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic mezzobula by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. - AsNotedIn

Mr 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. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Theme Group: Literary London
• Theme Group: London Fog, King of Mist

Places

• Cavendish Square, London, London With that he blew out his candle, put on a great coat and set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding patients.
• Edinburgh, Scotland "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" was inspired by the actual case of Deacon Brodie.
• London, England It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.
• Soho, London, The dismal quarter of Soho...with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed...like a district of some city in a nightmare.
• The Regent's Park, London It was a fine, clear, January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead and the Regent's Park was full of winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odours.