The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Part 1 Summary

The story opens with Dr. Jekyll's friend and solicitor, Gabriel John Utterson, and Utterson' s distant kinsman, Mr. Enfield, taking a walk one Sunday. They find themselves passing a "certain sinister block of building" in the London district of Soho that "bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence." After stopping in front of a "blistered and distained" door on this block, Mr. Enfield recalls that one evening at three he was returning home through that section of the city when he saw a man run into a little girl. He notes that "the man trampled calmly over the...

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