Robert Louis Stevenson

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by...

The world-famous illustrator Michael Foreman complements these classic and beloved verses with illustrations as luminous and clear as Stevenson's own word pictures.-- Amazon.

Originally published serially in 1883 and then as a book in 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Black Arrow" is a thrilling and fascinating tale set during the fifteenth-century War of the Roses. Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist, greatly influenced authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and J. M. Barrie. His most famous works include "Treasure Island", also published in 1883, and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr....

Keawe buys a magic bottle which brings him all that he desires but which he must sell before he dies in order to avoid spending eternity in hell.

Kidnapped was written as a boys' novel and was first published in Young Folks magazine in 1886. It is an historical fiction story set in Scotland and written in English with some Lowland Scot dialogue. Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. The political...

A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

Illustrations of a father and son accompany Robert Louis Stevenson's poem about the moon, depicting them in nighttime boating activities that reflect the words of the poem.

From the publisher. Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one of the most original and thrilling in English Literature. This new edition of Stevenson's most famous work includes three additional...

Presents the complete collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Beach of Falesá."