Robert-Louis Stevenson - Libros y biografía

Robert Louis Stevenson met the love of his life in France in 1876. She was Fanny Osborne, an American, and four years later the pair married in California. "Silverado Squatters" describes the honeymoon...

'A Footnote to History' is an account of Colonial abuse in Samoa, the scramble by the US, Germany and Britain so swallow up land with little regard for the native Samoans. Stevenson became deeply ingrained...

'Across the Plains' is a vibrant collection of travel and exploration pieces from Stevenson's life. 'Across the Plains' itself recounts Stevenson's journey from Glasgow to New York before his long train...

Likened to Alexandre Dumas' adventures and romances, this novel follows Otto and Serafina's relationship as they navigate a web of political intrigues, murder conspiracies, and deceitful aquaintances....

'In The South Seas' is a collection of stories from the Pacific Islands curated by Stevenson as he cruised through the islands. The collection is among some of the most important bodies of literature...

A collection of Stevenson's first published works, "New Arabian Nights" is divided into two volumes of loosely connected short stories. There is no Scheherazade this time, but Stevenson chooses to present...

Joseph and Masterson Finsbury are two brothers, who entered a tontine with 37 other boys, when they were still children. In this tontine, subscribers share a common fund. Shares are being increased as...

Um velho marinheiro se instala na estalagem dos pais de Jim Hawkins. Ele parece estar escondendo alguma coisa... Quando os piratas atacam a pousada, Jim foge e leva consigo o que o capitão estava escondendo:...

'Essays of Travel' represents years of travel writing unpublished by Stevenson in is lifetime, and offer and incredible insight in to his globe-trotting adventures. From sultry walks in Suffolk to the...

'An Inland Voyage' is a fascinating account of a canoe trip made by Stevenson and his good friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson from Belgium to France. It is a relaxing account of the their voyage, what...

L’avenirMoi, quand je serai grandJe serai fier et puissantEt je dirai, sans hésiterPas touche à mes jouets !(extrait)Dans ce nouveau titre de La Collection, les regards de Robert Louis Stevenson et d'Ilya...

Inspired by the tall tales left behind by a weathered, old seaman upon his death, young Jim Hawkins sets sail on a swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime to find the treasure—marked with an “X”—on an old...

Recently orphaned, young David Balfour is kidnapped and held captive aboard the ship Covenant after approaching his miserly uncle about his inheritance. At the mercy of a treacherous crew, David must...

When lawyer Gabriel John Utterson witnesses the odd behavior of a man named Edward Hyde, who uses cheques signed by Utterson’s friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, he decides to investigate the strange and violent...

"Treasure Island" is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on 14 November 1883.  Robert Louis Balfour...

Lo strano caso del Dr Jekyll e Mr Hyde (1886) è probabilmente la più celebre opera di Robert Louis Stevenson. La trama del racconto/romanzo è nota: un avvocato londinese, Gabriel John Utterson, indaga...

"Catriona" (also known as David Balfour) is a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel "Kidnapped".This novel is an ode to love, justice and patriotism. Once again...

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle...

Treasure Island (1883), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one of the most famous children's novels of all time. Published for the first time in installments in the children's magazine Young Folks in the...

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...

Pubblicato nel 1883, questo romanzo che rimane il più celebre di Stevenson è anche probabilmente un insuperato esempio nel genere del romanzo avventuroso, oltre che uno dei libri più celebri di tutti...

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevensondescribing the contemporary Samoan Civil War. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa...

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886.

"The amateur emigrant", written by Robert Louis Stevenson between 1879 and 1880, is an account of the trip that the writer do ' from Scotland to California to visit his Californian future wife seriously...

"An Inland Voyage” (1878) is one of the most well known R.L.Stevenson's travelogues. In 1878 the outdoor excursions were an unusual pastime so Stevenson seeks to present the reader an innocent, showing...

“Prince Otto” is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson of 1885. Otto is a prince of a small German court of the eighteenth century, his indolent character leads him to delegate all power to his wife Amélie-Séraphine,...

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. The story is set in the wild region...

Young Jim Hawkins comes into possession of a map depicting an island where the infamous pirate Captain Flint has buried his prey. Together with a colourful crew under Captain Smollett, a dangerous search...

Jim e seus companheiros navegam em busca do tesouro do lendário capitão Flint. Cheios de confiança, eles nem imaginam que estão à mercê de bandidos sanguinários. Agora, só muita astúcia e coragem conseguirão...

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of...