Robert Louis, Stevenson - Libros y biografía

The piratical coming of age of Jim Hawkins, who discovers a map of Treasure Island among an old sea captain's possessions – and then follows it. Parrots, 'pieces of eight' and the lovable, but morally...

A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is a historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly...

Conte l'histoire d'un avoué, Charles Utterson, qui enquête sur le lien étrange entre Edward Hyde et le médecin Henry Jekyll. Le Docteur Jekyll, un philanthrope obsédé par sa double personnalité, met au...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson started to write "In the South Seas" in 1889, sailing at...

Nella nostra antologia "La filosofia dell'ombrello" troviamo uno Stevenson che smette i panni del romanziere popolare per offrirci una divertente rappresentazione della vita e della società umana, colta...

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today...

Pubblicato nel 1893, Catriona riprende vicende e personaggi da "Il ragazzo rapito", uno dei romanzi più famosi di Stevenson. Nella prima parte l'intrepido David Balfour cerca con tutte le forze di ottenere...

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly...

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

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 book plot concerns the adventures...

DURING his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters This book contains 12 chapters,...

"The sea fogs" is an account of a trip to Napa Valley (California), first published by Stevenson in short story form in 1879. During this trip the writer's health worsens: influenced by disease, Stevenson...

"Kidnapped" is a novel written by R.L.Stevenson in 1886. The story is told in first person by the protagonist. The book is set in Scotland in the years of the civil war, in the mid-1700 's, the historical...

Connaissez-vous le système de la tontine? Un groupe de personnes cotise à part égale, et le dernier survivant rafle la mise totale. Le Mort vivant est l'histoire de deux frères, derniers prétendants d'une...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson "St. Ives" (AKA St. Ives: The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England) is an unfinished novel created...

Connaissez-vous le système de la tontine? Un groupe de personnes cotise à part égale, et le dernier survivant rafle la mise totale. Le Mort vivant est l'histoire de deux frères, derniers prétendants d'une...

Le jeune Jim Hawkins est le fils du gérant de L'Amiral-Benbow, une auberge située sur la côte de Bristol, en Angleterre. Un jour Billy Bones, un vieux loup de mer chargé d'un coffre, s'installe à l'auberge....

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Die Schatzinsel | Neue Ausgabe, mit den original Illustrationen von Georges Roux und der legendären Schatzkarte, von Stevenson selbst gezeichnet | »Die Schatzinsel« gehört zu jenen...

Questo romanzo di Stevenson risale al 1888 e mette in risalto le crude e a volte spietate pieghe emotive, sociali e storiche di un conflitto tra fratelli nel periodo dell'insurrezione giacobita. A metà...

Probabilmente il più famoso romanzo di letteratura fantastica di tutti i tempi, pubblicato nel 1886, pochi libri nella storia contemporanea hanno avuto lo stesso successo, la stessa suggestione e la stessa...

Esta é a mais popular história de piratas de todos os tempos. Um marinheiro morre, numa estalagem, em circunstâncias misteriosas. O jovem Jim Hawkins fica com um baú que ele lhe deixa, onde descobre um...

Vers 1460, la guerre des Deux-Roses (Lancastre contre York) ravage l'Angleterre. Dans la forêt de Tunstall-que hantent un bossu énergétique, un faux lépreux masqué et un hors-la-loi surnommé " la flèche...

I WILL begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began...

La liberté individuelle avant tout. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), à la courte vie bien remplie, est une star internationale des lettres quand il débarque dans les mers du Sud. L’Ile au trésor (1883)...

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including...

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...

On a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell upon Tunstall Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour. Far and near, in the forest and in the fields along the river, people began...

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly...