| "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" With this sinister snatch of piratical song echoing along the English coast, the mysterious Billy Bones ushers young Jim Hawkins into an undreamed-of world of danger and adventure on the far-flung, mist-shrouded Treasure Island. And over it all looms the towering shadow of the most famous corsair of them all - the ever-scheming, intriguing, and enigmatic Long John Silver! Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of 18th-century buccanee....[more] |
| The world's best stories, retold in dynamic, graphic-novel form. These re-visioned classics will hook your reluctant readers and thrust them face-to-face with some of history's most famous stories. |
1911
| When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of infamy and violence from which there seems no escape. The story is set in 18th-century Scotland, and is based around events in the aftermath of the Jacobite Risings. An adventure story "to while away winter evenings," according to Stevenson, it is also a deeply romantic highland novel, in which Stevenson can be seen to firmly reject the more "r....[more] |
1982
| The respectable Doctor Jekyll has written his will, leaving all his possessions to the strange Mr. Hyde. Later, when Hyde murders an innocent man, Doctor Jekyll claims that he has broken off contact with Hyde. But a secret remains that he dares not reveal. Using the graphic novel format,Graphic Classicsintroduce children to many of the world’s greatest literary works. The high-quality illustrations complement narratives that are paced to catch and hold young readers’ interest. In addition to its....[more] |
1979
| Generations have gone "up in a swing, up in the air so blue" with these timeless poems, savoring their images of the delights, fears, and wonders of childhood. A keepsake treasure, this new unabridged hardcover edition features ornate foil stamping on the cover, a handsome vellum dust jacket, and ribbon place marker, in addition to 100 enchanting pen-and-ink drawings. |
1979
| Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. The Silverado Squatters, published in 1883, is a travel memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. The trip was a 2 month honeymoon trip taken by him and his wife Fanny Vandegrift and her son Lloyd Osbourne. The family visited the Napa Valley in California in the summer of 1880. Stevenson was recovering from a lifelong fibronous bronchitis condition. His ....[more] |
| No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes into the world and lacks your imprimatur: a strange thing in our joint lives; and the reason of it stranger still! I have watched with interest, with pain, and at length with amusement, your unavailing attempts to peruse The Black Arrow; and I think I should lack humour indeed, if I let the occasion slip and did not place your ....[more] |
1911
| Stevenson's collected author studies, including looks at the works of Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshida-Torajiro, Francois Villon, Charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys, and John Knox. [Facsimile reprint of the 1912 edition. |
| Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th century Scottish essayist, poet, novelist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Kidnapped, Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island. |
1914
| To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour |
2009
| The Biographical Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. |
1966
| THIS volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle - taken together, they build up a face that "I have loved long since and lost awhile," the face of what was once myself. This has come by accident; I had no design at first to be autobiographical; I was but led away by the charm of belo....[more] |
| "The Land of Counterpane," "The Land of Nod" and 62 other poems voice the many moods and currents of a child's imaginings. Reprinted in large, easy-to-read type, with new illustrations. |
1982
| It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them. |
1995
| JOHN VAREY NICHOLSON was stupid; yet stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction. |
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