Robert Louis: 1244 books

"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" can be seen as a story about the concept of good and evil that exists in all of us or a critique on the hypocrisy and double standards of the society and also an interesting study into the mind of the author and into the theories of dualism.First...

On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England.  In the States, it has not been thought advisable...

Vous chercheriez en vain sur la carte d’Europe l’État de Grunewald. Principauté indépendante et membre infinitésimal de l’Empire d’Allemagne, ayant joué pendant quelques siècles son rôle dans les discordes européennes, elle disparut enfin à la maturité des âges et sous la baguette...

Selection of essays on subjects as varied as marriage, illness, age and youth, idlers, English Admirals and the romance of old gas lamps in newly electrified Edinburgh (1878). Contents "Virginibus puerisque" -- Crabbed age and youth -- An apology for idlers -- Ordered South...

This edition includes the most important travel writings by the famous author: The Silverado Squatters Across The Plains The Amateur Emigrant Cockermouth And Keswick - A Fragment An Autumn Effect A Winter's Walk In Carrick And Galloway - A Fragment A Mountain Town In France [175] - A Fragment Random...

This edition is one the most complete Stevensonia collections. It contains a wealth of his essays, memories and records. The essays brought together under this title are chiefly Stevenson's reflections, ten years afterwards, on the experiences and friendships of his youth. They represent a proportion...

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Poetry and prose. No specific theme. A lot of yata yata and plenty of la-de-da.

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing this substantial—though until now neglected—epistolary corpus. The majority of the essays gathered...

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....

Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer....

In this journal of his experiences crossing North America by train –written in 1879-80 and first published in 1892—the celebrated master of the adventure novel demonstrates his flair as a travel writer and essayist. Across the Plains is a genuine slice of Americana as seen through a Scotsman’s eyes.

With “The Dynamiter,” a series of linked stories written in collaboration with his wife, Fanny Vandergrift, Stevenson returns to the character of Prince Florizel, first introduced in New Arabian Nights. Florizel (now going by the name Theophilus Godall) and his associates are led on a wild adventure...