Robert - Libros y biografía

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs...

"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...

Les îles Sangihe, comprenant les îles Siau, Tagulandang, Sangir et Bialo, sont situées au nord de la pointe Est de Sulawesi, entre l'Indonésie et les Philippines. La principale langue parlée est le sangihe,...

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...

Everyone is talking about agility and praising it as THE approach for successful project management. However, many approaches offer hardly any methods for external steering, budgeting, reporting, controlling....

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...

How To Make Marriage Work does not indicate that love has nothing to do with marriage; rather, love alone is insufficient to sustain relationships. Marriage is a job, and it must be addressed as such....

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,...

Living to be Righteous Born into a cult Maxwell White believed, in his youthful vigor, that he undoubtedly lived a fully righteous life. In his early twenties, however, Max found himself excommunicated...

"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...

Willkommen an Bord! Auf einem Schiff, das mehr zu bieten hat, als sich auf den Liegestühlen beim Pool in die Sonne zu legen oder im Casino sein Geld zu verspielen. Im "The Silent Palm" treffen mit Daniel...

Les contes de ma grand-mère est un recueil de contes qui plonge le lecteur dans des univers différents liés au monde de l’enfance et des aléas de la vie. On y joue, on se dévoile, on chaparde… dans la...

In this essay the author describes the main aspects of a successful life in business, family, and society. He deals with changes and continuity in life that are closely connected. Although the different...

"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...

Francesca Johnson lever ett lugnt liv på en farm i Madison County tillsammans med sin familj. Känslorna för maken är inte lika starka som en gång i tiden och i hemlighet drömmer hon om en annan tillvaro,...

This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Robert Michael Ballantyne, the Scottish master of the adventure genre for young people Originally published in 1880, “Post Haste” (AKA Post...

In seiner finsteren Bleibe erscheint dem Junkie eine pyramidenförmige Kreatur. Im Herzen des neuen Computers existiert eine gänzlich andere Form von Leben. Ein Fremder spricht in einem Park gar prophetische...

THE baby was born at Whitewater Farms about nine in the morning, April 19, 1900. Two pure-breed calves,-one a heifer, the other a bull,-were dropped the same day at nearly the same hour. Odell came in...

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...

Die Antwort des Hamburger Schriftstellers und Malers Rafael R. Pilsczek auf den Krieg in Europa und auf die gewachsenen Gefahren in der Nähe und in der Welt ist es nicht, auf die Gegenwart mit einer gegenwärtigen...

The woman on the horse reined in her weary steed. It stood with its legs wide-braced, its head drooping, as if it found even the weight of the gold-tasseled, red-leather bridle too heavy. The woman drew...