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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” begins
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.
He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 29 words you will meet most often in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” at level B2 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- cabinet
- master
- thus
- soul
- terror
- bear
- evil
- creature
- strike
- fellow
- conscious
- candle
- curiosity
- countenance
- hence
- observe
- relief
- forth
- somewhat
- mere
- flee
- sake
- conscience
- disappearance
- inquire
- declare
- circumstance
- grant
- pause
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Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- Relative clauses
- Phrasal verbs
- Modal verbs
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Conditionals
- Reported speech
Constructions to look for
- Phrasal verb with 'down' Jekyll’s Will,” and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
- Past perfect active Utterson thought he had never seen that part of London so deserted.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think, a box of lights.
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About the book
Why The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a great book to read in English
A respectable doctor, a vicious stranger, and a will that leaves everything from one to the other: Utterson the lawyer pulls the thread until the truth comes out. Stevenson's 1886 thriller is short, tightly plotted, and a superb introduction to atmospheric Victorian prose.
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