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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · 25,601 words
1:14:09
at 380 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about three hours.

Everybody already knows Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde are the same man, which is not how Stevenson built it. The book is a lawyer's investigation. Gabriel Utterson is unsettled by a will leaving his friend Jekyll's whole estate to a stranger called Hyde, and works at it from the outside: a child trampled at a street corner, an M.P. clubbed to death with a cane, a locked door, a servant who no longer believes the voice behind it is his master's. Jekyll's own account is held back to the final chapter. Knowing the answer costs less than you would think, because the dread is Utterson's. About seventy minutes, one sitting.

10 chapters · begin at the beginning
Story of the Door6:56begin ▸
·Search for Mr. Hyde8:33sealed
·Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease2:21sealed
·The Carew Murder Case4:49sealed
·Incident of the Letter4:51sealed
·Incident of Dr. Lanyon4:19sealed
·Incident at the Window1:39sealed
·The Last Night13:00sealed
·Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative8:01sealed
·Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case19:40sealed

How long does it take to read Jekyll and Hyde?

Jekyll and Hyde is 25,601 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 1 hr 25 min, or roughly 1 hr 4 min if you read quickly and 2 hr 8 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence