Stevenson: 1819 books

Two classic 19th-century suspense novels by Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae.

Andrew Stevenson takes to the tracks in the hiking heaven of New Zealand's famous wilderness areas. With insight and a gentle humour, he explores the spirit of this spectacular land and its people, provides an illuminating view of his fellowbackpackers, and reveals that, however much or little you...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks [Horatio Alger, Jr] Tom Swift and His Wireless Message [Victor Appleton] Gulliver of Mars Edwin [Lester Arnold] The Lust of Hate Guy [Newell Boothby] Cabin...

Nineteen stories of triumph in the past, present, future, and other worlds“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.”Those were the words of Mitch McConnell after he banned Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking on the floor of the United States Senate....

"A Christmas Sermon", essay written by Robert Louis Stevenson while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text he meditates on the questions of death, morality and man’s main task in life which he concludes is “To be honest, to be kind...

St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British.The...

CONTENTS A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Bel Ami, Or, the History of a Scoundrel by Guy de Maupassant House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson The Last of the Mohicans;...

In his acclaimed collection Tales Before Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson illuminated the sources, inspirations, and influences that fired J.R.R. Tolkien’s genius. Now Anderson turns his attention to Tolkien’s colleague and friend C. S. Lewis, whose influence on modern fantasy, through his beloved...

Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English. There’s a great option: bilingual books! Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 6 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : Dracula - Bram Stoker Kim - Rudyard Kipling *New Grub Street *- George Gissing Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton The Golden Bowl - Henry James The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen...

This is a perfect collection for a long journey, rainy days, or for any quiet moments. This wonderful collection of books will bring adults back to their childhoods and create many happy memories for middle and young adult readers. These classics include books of adventure, animals, family life, fantasy...

A single person—but with two personalities: one that’s noble and kind and another that’s pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson’s engrossing masterpiece about the dual nature of man—and a good doctor whose thirst for knowledge has tragic consequences—serves up all the suspense and satisfying chills one expects from the best horror and science fiction.

The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette (1894) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Imagine a humorous novel about a suicide who enters heaven and finds it not cosseting but a purgatory where lifes distractions (food, booze, sex, Internet) are removed and the hardest question looms: Why did he kill himself? Welcome to the journey of Steven, an unintentionally funny male whiner, panicker,...