Read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Englishwith every sentence explained

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1886. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under horror.

A respected doctor. A man who tramples a child. And a will that makes no sense.

Gabriel John Utterson, a dry but loyal London lawyer, hears an ugly story from his kinsman Richard Enfield. A man named Edward Hyde knocked down a little girl in the street and calmly walked over her, then, cornered by angry witnesses, paid them off with a cheque signed by someone of the highest reputation.

Utterson has reason to shudder. His old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, a kind and celebrated physician, has just made a will leaving everything to this very Hyde. Fearing blackmail, the lawyer begins to watch a shabby door in a quiet street, waiting for the stranger to appear, and the truth he uncovers is far darker than he imagines.

First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde became an instant sensation and gave the world a name for the two sides of human nature. It has been retold on stage and screen countless times.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.