Robert Louis Stevenson: 1171 books

An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Medical school students Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution’s research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman...

À l'automne 1878, le jeune écrivain part avec une ânesse, Modestine, pendant douze jours et traverse les Cévennes depuis Monastier jusqu'à St Jean du Gard. Il nous décrit agréablement cette région de montagnes, et nous relate en même temps l'histoire de ces contrées, en particulier la révolte...

One-legged Long John Silver, treacherous Captain Billy Bones, wicked Black Dog and terrifying Blind Pew: these are the most cruel and frightening pirates ever to sail the high seas. They all dream of finding Captain Flints buried treasure, but it is young Jim Hawkins, only 14 years old, who finds Flints...

Classic / British English Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor?   After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary BorderYou are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building,...

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run . . .' But young Jim Hawkins...

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. ‘I ran to the side of the ship. “Help, help! Murder!” I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my...

This file includes the adventure novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and its sequel David Balfour, also known as Catriona.

For the long nights you lay awake and watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand that led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted: For all you pitied, all you bore, In sad and happy days of yore: My second Mother, my first Wife,...

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now.

A beautiful classic edition for fans of gothic tales. How thin is the line between good and evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt...

CONTENIDO: Cuentos de horror [Ambrose Bierce] El monte de las ánimas [Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer] El Horror de Dunwich [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] La Llamada de Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft] El Horla [Guy de Maupassant] Relatos escogidos II [Edgar Allan Poe] Berenice [Edgar Allan Poe] Relatos...

Volume 3 presents three Penny Dreadful classics for Kobo: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mysteries of Paris Vols.1-3 and The Compensation House, a rare short story by Charles Collins, brother of Wilkie.  *Beautifully illustrated with original art.  *Over 1,000 pages...