Robert Louis: 1244 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Master of Ballantrae is a Gothic romance of adventure and revenge. Brothers Henry and James Durie take opposite sides during the Jacobite uprising of 1745 to ensure the survival of their estate regardless of the...

The gripping novel of a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences surrounding his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Mr. Edward Hyde.The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from the other.

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THERE are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarely still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule. He is...

**ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The adventures of David Balfour, a young orphan, as he journeys through the dangerous Scottish Highlands in an attempt to regain his rightful inheritance. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:** A concise introduction...

Contents The Merry Men     i.    Eilean Aros     ii.   What the wreck had brought to Aros     iii.  Land and sea in Sandag Bay     iv.   The...

POEMS OF LIFE, NATURE, LOVE, AND FAITH Unlike a tree, our hope is not to sprout again, upon the earth but in the holy prefecture of our Maker, for everything is not right with our world. There are wars in Syria and Afghanistan, and it seems that Israel and Palestine will never achieve lasting...

O príncipe Florizel e o seu escudeiro, o coronel Geraldine gostam de percorrer as ruas de Londres sob anonimato à procura de aventuras. Uma noite deparam-se com um estranho homem que os leva a um clube de admissão restrita. Neste clube juntam-se homens que, pelas mais diversas...

«A ilha do tesouro» é a mais popular história de piratas e tesouros da história da literatura. Foi adaptada um sem-número de vezes ao cinema e serviu de inspiração para milhares de outras obras e sequelas.

Extrait : Le Lord-Juge était considéré comme un étranger dans cette région, mais sa femme, qui en était originaire, y était connue dès l’enfance, de même que sa race l’avait été avant elle. Les vieux Chevaliers...

Le Roman Étrange en Angleterre... “Quelques lenteurs, il faut en convenir, embarrassent le début. Peu nous importent, par exemple, les idées et les habitudes de M. Utterson, un personnage d’arrière-plan, dépositaire du testament bizarre qui fait passer tous les biens de Henry Jekyll entre...

C’était loin d’être mon premier livre, car je ne suis pas seulement un romancier. Mais je sais à merveille que mon maître-payeur, le grand public, regarde avec indifférence, sinon avec aversion, tout ce que j’ai écrit quand ce n’est pas du roman. S’il me réclame quelquefois,...

Extrait :  Vous chercheriez en vain sur la carte d’Europe l’État de Grunewald. Principauté indépendante et membre  infinitésimal de l’Empire d’Allemagne, ayant joué pendant quelques siècles son rôle dans les discordes  européennes,...

Extrait du livre : Combien le lecteur, - tandis que, commodément assis au coin de son feu, il s’amuse à feuilleter les pages d’un roman, - combien il se rend peu compte des fatigues et des angoisses de l’auteur ! Combien il néglige de se représenter les...

This tale of adventure, for the most part in a strain of romantic comedy, belongs to the last two years of Stevenson's life. It tells of the adventures of a French Napoleonic soldier who got captured by British troops.