Robert Louis Stevenson

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. This edition also includes Stevenson's chilling story 'The Bottle Imp'. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

Kidnapped

CLASSIC FICTION. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is an exciting adventure story in which a young boy, Jim Hawkins, recounts his hunt for buried treasure and his fight with pirates led by the one-legged Long John Silver and his famous parrot, Captain Flint. This title is part of a wonderful new series that offers a quick way into a range of exciting stories. Fast-moving and accessible, each story is a shortened, dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel, which loses none of the strength and flavour of the original. Retold rather than abridged. Ages 9+.

Treasure Island

Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e del signor Hyde

Dr. Jekyll ile Bay Hyde

Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts," "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk," and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" chronicle the exploits of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.

The Suicide Club

The Body Snatcher is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1884, its characters are based on criminals in the employ of real-life surgeon Robert Knox around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders (1828).

The Body Snatcher

An Apology for Idlers

Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme--the risky business of making a pact with the devil--this short story is a radiant jewel. It recounts the mercurial lot of Keawe, a Hawaiian who purchases a bottle inhabited by an imp capable of granting any wish. Yet this enticing object holds a dark curse: anyone who dies with it in his possession will burn forever in hell. And here's the rub: one can sell the bottle only for less than its purchase price. Keawe rids himself of the bottle after acquiring a palatial home. But when he needs it again to ensure his happiness with a newfound love, its cost is, chillingly, one cent, and the responsibility of ownership becomes a good deal more complex. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The Bottle Imp

Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novella about decaying aristocracy, vampirism and tormented love.

Olalla

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

María Durante

La isla del tesoro

Intihar Kulübü

Un vieux loup des mers s’installe dans l’auberge des parents de Jim Hawkins. Il semble cacher quelque chose... Lorsque des pirates viennent attaquer l’auberge, Jim s’enfuit et emporte avec lui ce que le capitaine cachait : une carte au trésor ! C’est ainsi que débute l’aventure du jeune Jim vers un voyage chargé de rebondissements et de rencontres isolites au coeur d'un paysage tropical. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) est un écrivain écossais et un grand voyageur. C’est au fil de ces voyages que lui vient l’inspiration pour écrire ses œuvres pleines d’aventures et ses récits fantastiques. Avec une narration très visuelle, il arrive à manifester une critique aux habitudes de son l’époque. Ses romans ont souvent été adaptés aux différents médias, notamment dans le film « L’île au trésor » dirigé par Alain Berberien en 2012 et l’emblématique « Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde » fait en 1931.

L’Île au trésor

A thrilling coming-of-age novel about bravery, adventure, good and evil, Treasure Island is the story of young Jim Hawkins, who discovers a treasure map marked with an X. But Jim has no way of knowing that Long John Silver, his friendly new crew-mate on the quest for the buried hoard, is determined to keep the treasure for himself, at any cost. Treasure Island is paired here with Stevenson's extraordinary, savage late novella The Ebb-Tide, which features a tropical island and a ship with a wholly different crew.

Treasure Island and the Ebb-Tide

This volume includes Stevenson's famous spine-chilling thriller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as Weir of Hermiston, an unfinished novel, whom many consider to be Stevenson's masterpiece. It was cut short by his sudden death in 1894 from a cerebral hemorrhage. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLLl AND MR HYDE: Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance. -- WEIR OF HERIMSTON: Set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it tells the story of Archie Weir, a youth born into an upper-class Edinburgh family. Because of his Romantic sensibilities and sensitivity, Archie is estranged from his father, who is depicted as the coarse and cruel judge of a criminal court. By mutual consent, Archie is banished from his family of origin and sent to live as the local laird on a family property in the vicinity of the Borders hamlet Hermiston. While serving as the laird, Archie meets and falls in love with Kirstie (Christina). As the two are deepening their relationship, the book breaks off. Confusingly, there are two characters in the novel called Christina, the younger of whom is Archie's sweetheart.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston

The adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel’s place in Stevenson’s biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this new edition. Exploring the novel’s genesis in Stevenson’s “plundering” of other writers, his writer’s block, and the surprisingly disturbing and complex nature of what was meant to be a children’s story, Sutherland argues for the enduring vitality and appeal of Stevenson’s first novel. Appendices include Stevenson’s writing about the novel, contemporary reviews, and sources on which Stevenson drew (or from which he borrowed) when writing Treasure Island.

Misturando elementos de ficção científica e de horror, O Médico e o Monstro é uma das principais novelas góticas do século XIX. Publicado por Robert Louis Stevenson em 1886, o livro é considerado pelo autor de terror Stephen King um dos três grandes clássicos do gênero – ao lado de Drácula e de Frankenstein. O enredo tem início com a descoberta de que o respeitável médico Henry Jekyll deixou como único beneficiário de seu testamento o odioso senhor Hyde. Um ano depois, Hyde espanca um homem até a morte. Enquanto isso, Jekyll se isola cada vez mais em seu laboratório. O advogado Gabriel Utterson se empenhará, então, em descobrir a estranha relação que une esses homens. O Médico e o Monstro traz elementos inovadores ao gênero de horror, como o transtorno de dupla personalidade, por exemplo. Com referências aos assassinatos cometidos por Jack, o estripador, na Londres vitoriana, chegou a inspirar um novo termo no dicionário inglês: Jekyll and Hyde, como são chamadas as pessoas moralmente dúbias.

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