Robert Stevenson: 1201 books

Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

'Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.' Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of...

*Il “Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde” è un doppio trionfo. Vi sono in esso l’interesse esteriore del Conan Doyle e l’interesse interiore di Henry James. * Gilbert Keith Chesterton Durante le brumose notti londinesi, il torbido Mr. Hyde si insinua nelle strade deserte e tortura giovani ragazze...

This unpublished story, preserved among Mrs. Stevenson’s papers, is mentioned by Mr. Balfour in his life of Stevenson. Writing of the fables which Stevenson began before he had left England and ''attacked again, and from time to time added to their number'' in 1893, Mr. Balfour says: ''The reference...

Idealizada por Fernando Sabino, a coleção Novelas Imortais reúne narrativas breves de autores de grandes clássicos universais, como Miguel de Cervantes, Herman Melville, R. L. Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, E. T. A. Hoffmann, entre outros. São pequenas obras-primas selecionadas e apresentadas...

Stevenson, a diferencia de muchos otros escritores, creó moralidades y tramas en sus fábulas. El no fue un hombre religioso. Fue algo más, un hombre ético. Cada fábula de este libro tiene su propio estilo y vocabulario: algunas son coloquiales, otras son intemporales y podrían ser muy antiguas....

Author of the timeless Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson is a hugely popular author, and one of the most translated in the world. First published in Pall Mall magazine in December of 1884, 'The Body-Snatcher' is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the...

Driven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the ‘stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes’. Setting his imaginative writings within the social and political contexts of his letters and essays from...

Das Werk "Catriona oder Die Abenteuer David Balfours daheim und in der Fremde" (engl. "Catriona") ist ein historischer Abenteuerroman des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson, der – im September 1892 auf Upolu (Samoa) vollendet – vom Oktober 1892 bis zum September...

Der versoffene Schotte Fettes, ein offenbar medizinisch gebildeter alter Mann, begegnet in Debenham dem reichen Londoner Arzt Dr. Wolfe Macfarlane. Der anonyme Ich-Erzähler lockt aus Fettes die Geschichte seiner Jugend heraus. Fettes hatte in Edinburgh bei Mr. K. Medizin studiert und war für die...

This meticously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) Angels from the Realms of Glory (James Montgomery) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Christmas...

Diverso dal narratore di avventure piratesche o di guerriglie tra clan scozzesi – iniquità ritualmente compiute da un affascinante ribaldo – è lo Stevenson che, per la prima e ultima volta in vita sua, scrive una storia d’amore, questa preziosa fiaba del principe Otto, che corteggia sua moglie,...