L'histoire se deroule a Londres, en Angleterre, au XIXe siecle. M. Utterson est un notaire londonien. Pendant l'une de ses promenades dominicales avec son cousin eloigne, Richard Enfield, ils passent devant une etrange demeure, sans fenetres aux etages et dotee d'une seule porte au rez-de-chaussee. Apercevant cette maison, ce dernier lui raconte cette troublante histoire: une nuit, qui etait deja bien avancee, Enfield rentrait a son domicile lorsqu'il apercut une petite fille qui courait dans une rue, ainsi qu'un petit homme d'aspect repugnant.

El senor Utterson, un prestigioso abogado londinense, ha escuchado una historia de su amigo, el senor Enfield, que despierta su curiosidad. Asi, Utterson comienza una investigacion para averiguar la verdadera identidad de Mr. Hyde, un hombre que se presenta muy unido a un viejo amigo conocido como el doctor Jekyll. Sus investigaciones llevan a Utterson, en primer lugar, a un testamento escrito por Jekyll, en el que hace propietario, en el caso de su muerte o desaparicion, de todos sus bienes a Hyde.

Gabriel John Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield reach the door of a large house on their weekly walk. Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Enfield forced Hyde to pay 100 to avoid a scandal. Hyde brought them to this door and provided a cheque signed by a reputable gentleman (later revealed to be Dr. Henry Jekyll, a friend and client of Utterson). Utterson is disturbed because Jekyll recently changed his will to make Hyde the sole beneficiary. Utterson fears that Hyde is...

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." It was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North." It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co.

Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional fortress of Valperga, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty. She chooses the latter and sails off to her death.

The Heir of Mondolfo is a short story that was written by Mary Shelley and published in 1877, more than 25 years after her death. It was first published in Appleton's Journal and was called an excellent example of Gothic Fiction. I would have to agree, I enjoyed the story and it did seem to have almost all of those "Gothic" elements.

Like Shelley's novel Lodore (1835), Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue. However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before. When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's female values subdue the destructive impulses of the two men she loves, who are reconciled and unite with Elizabeth in domestic...

In Lodore, Shelley focused her theme of power and responsibility on the microcosm of the family. The central story follows the fortunes of the wife and daughter of the title character, Lord Lodore, who is killed in a duel at the end of the first volume, leaving a trail of legal, financial, and familial obstacles for the two "heroines" to negotiate. Mary Shelley places female characters at the centre of the ensuing narratives: Lodore's daughter, Ethel, raised to be over-dependent on paternal control; his estranged wife, Cornelia, preoccupied with the norms and appearances of aristocratic...

In this novel, Mary Shelley returned to The Last Man's message that an idealistic political system is impossible without an improvement in human nature. This historical novel, influenced by those of Sir Walter Scott, fictionalises the exploits of Perkin Warbeck, a pretender to the throne of King Henry VII who claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the second son of King Edward IV. Shelley believed that Warbeck really was Richard and had escaped from the Tower of London. She endows his character with elements of Percy Shelley, portraying him sympathetically as "an angelic essence, incapable of...

Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.