Robert Louis Stevenson

His innovative thriller, as shocking now as when it was first published, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror is edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall. 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 the '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. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: 'Olalla', a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and 'The Body Snatcher', a gruesome fictionalisation of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare. This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1893). If you enjoyed The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, you might like The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg, also available in Penguin Classics.'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago'Ian Rankin

Tohtori Jekyll ja herra Hyde on kuuluisa kauhukertomus. Tohtori Jekyll on kiltti mies, mutta hänen ystävänsä herra Hyde on vaarallinen ja väkivaltainen. Mitä yhteistä heillä on? Millaisia kokeita Jekyll tekee laboratoriossaan lukittujen ovien takana? Robert Louis Stevensonin klassisen tarinan voi nyt lukea selkokielellä.

"Jättefin samling" Josefin Sundström, TV4 Nyhetsmorgon "Det är förtjänstfullt initierat: Frankenstein är ett exempel på hur en litterär karaktär kan vara igenkännbar även för den som inte läst romanen... här kan antologin medverka till att sprida klassiska verk till en yngre målgrupp... Victor Medinas illustrationer är fängslande." Bibliotekstjänst, Emma Hertley-Lundberg En samling med de bästa rysarna genom tiderna. De flesta känner till historien om vampyren Dracula eller Frankensteins monster flitigt återkommande i populärkulturen. Dessa och ytterligare åtta berättelser presenteras här, anpassade till åldern nio till tolv år. Varje historia får ungefär fem uppslag och flera kompletterande illustrationer i färg. Dracula (Stoker) Frankenstein (Shelly) Det skvallrande hjärtat (Poe) Dr Jekyll och mr Hyde (Stevenson) Dorian Grays porträtt (Wilde) Mumien (Doyle) Huset med de sju gavlarna (Hawthorn) Legenden om Sleepy Hollow (Irving)Spökpiraterna (Hodgeson) Hans och Greta (Grimm)En spännande antologi för den modiga som gillar att läsning ger rysningar.

The Gothic Trilogy: Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (unabridged versions) in one tome only Three Classic Gothic Novels: 1) Dracula, 2) Frankenstein, 3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde --all three classics complete and unabridged versions by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson. 1) Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel, and invasion literature. The novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film, and television interpretations. 2) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story because, in contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence in literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films and plays. 3) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886.

The timeless, genre-defying classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Raven & Other Writings are now available together in this bone-chilling paperback boxed set. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, the relationship between a well-respected doctor and a violent criminal is more shocking than anyone could guess in this unholy tale of a repressed man giving himself over wholly to the worst of his vices and shame. Also, two medical students turn to grave robbing in “The Body Snatcher” and a man wishes on a cursed bottle in “The Bottle Imp.” In Dracula, young English lawyer Jonathan Harker’s trip to Romania to meet with Count Dracula sets off a chain of events that threaten the lives of his friends, including his fiancée, Mina. With the help of vampire expert Professor Van Helsing, can Jonathan, Mina, and their friends defeat their sinister foe? In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring scientist whose obsession with the idea of creating life leads him to animate a humanoid figure he crafted from corpses. Confronted with the horror of what he’s created, Frankenstein abandons his monster—who in turn vows revenge. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees from the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane sleeps for twenty years to wake to a changed world, and more. The titular Phantom of the Opera hides from the world while terrorizing the Paris Opera House and its star, beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, in The Phantom of the Opera. In The Raven & Other Writings, murder and grief dominate the eerie stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This deliciously eerie paperback boxed set includes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories Dracula Frankenstein The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories The Phantom of the Opera The Raven & Other Writings

The timeless, genre-defying classics Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Raven & Other Writings are now available together in this bone-chilling hardcover boxed set. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories, the relationship between a well-respected doctor and a violent criminal is more shocking than anyone could guess in this unholy tale of a repressed man giving himself over wholly to the worst of his vices and shame. Also, two medical students turn to grave robbing in “The Body Snatcher” and a man wishes on a cursed bottle in “The Bottle Imp.” In Dracula, young English lawyer Jonathan Harker’s trip to Romania to meet with Count Dracula sets off a chain of events that threaten the lives of his friends, including his fiancée, Mina. With the help of vampire expert Professor Van Helsing, can Jonathan, Mina, and their friends defeat their sinister foe? In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein is an aspiring scientist whose obsession with the idea of creating life leads him to animate a humanoid figure he crafted from corpses. Confronted with the horror of what he’s created, Frankenstein abandons his monster—who in turn vows revenge. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories, schoolteacher Ichabod Crane flees from the Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane sleeps for twenty years to wake to a changed world, and more. The titular Phantom of the Opera hides from the world while terrorizing the Paris Opera House and its star, beautiful soprano Christine Daaé, in The Phantom of the Opera. In The Raven & Other Writings, murder and grief dominate the eerie stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. This deliciously eerie hardcover boxed set includes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories Dracula Frankenstein The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories The Phantom of the Opera The Raven & Other Writings

Rituals, death, the supernatural, the contrast of light and dark, man overreaching to disaster, things that lurk, unsettling nightmares and brooding landscapes, dark castles and ancient lore. Dark dreams made real. These are the creative maelstrom of gothic writing, and this collection brings together a representative sample of the best, from the finest early gothic writers. In this volume: - The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe. A dark story of madness, isolation and the supernatural. The eponymous house is falling apart, and with it, its occupant, Roderick Usher. This is one of Poe's most famous stories, hailed as a masterpiece of gothic horror.- The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. This is his most celebrated gothic ghost story. James wasn't exclusively a gothic writer but The Turn of the Screw is unashamedly in the gothic tradition. Like the best gothic literature it's unsettling and unexplained, leaving a satisfying chill and a racing heart.- The Body Snatcher, by Robert Louis Stevenson. He is possibly best known for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, weighing in with heavy themes of good and evil, the duality of man and the limits and constraints on ambition, but two years earlier (1884) he published the story reprinted in this collection, which involves exhuming corpses, dissection and the obligatory hints of the supernatural.- Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker. An Englishman on his way to Transylvania becomes stranded in the snow, forced to shelter in a vampire's tomb...- The Monkey's Paw, by WW Jacobs. A supernatural story where whoever holds a mummified Indian monkey's paw gets three wishes - but the paw has been cursed by an Indian fakir so that dire consequences result from using the paw. This is a story about temptation and the supernatural - an undoubted classic.- The Shunned House, by H. P Lovecraft. This is the most modern tale here, first appearing in Weird Tales in 1937, but its instincts are firmly rooted in the Victorian gothic tradition. Lovecraft's reputation for unsettling stories was cemented with his Cthulhu mythos (first seen in 1928's The Call of Cthulhu - also in Weird Tales), still haunting the dreams and adorning the t-shirts of modern readers. The Shunned House is set in an old and abandoned Rhode Island mansion with strange weeds in the yard and phosphorescent fungus growing in the cellar, with foul smells and vapors and the mysterious outline of a human body on the floor. Determined to solve the mysteries of this strange and chilling house, Elihu Whipple decides to spend a night there. Cue the supernatural...- Dr Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathanial Hawthorne. This cautionary tale is about a man who says he has water from the fountain of youth and invites his elderly friends to experiment by drinking it. But all, inevitably is not as it seems...- The Eyes, by Edith Wharton. They appear, disembodied, to Andrew Culwin at times of pressure or when he feels guilty, an insetting, supernatural, visible sign of judgement. It's a story of weakness and moral corruption, of consciousness and character. Classic gothic.

Title: The Home Country of R. L. Stevenson. Being the valley of the Water of Leith from source to sea ... Illustrated by Joseph Brown. (Second edition.). Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Geddie, John; Brown, Joseph; Stevenson, Robert Louis; 1898. xv. 220 p.; 4 . 10370.g.20.

Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome--with an introduction by Stephen King. "Within the pages of this volume you will come upon three of the darkest creations of English nineteenth-century literature; three of the darkest in all of English and American literature, many would say...and not without justification... These three creatures, presented together for the first time, all have a great deal in common beyond their power to go on frightening generation after generation of readers...but that fact alone should be considered before all others."--From the Introduction by Stephen King A scientist oversteps the bounds of conscience and brings to life a tortured creation. A young adventurer succumbs to the night world of a diabolic count. A man of medicine explores his darker side only to fall prey to it. They are legendary tales that have held readers spellbound for more than a century. The titles alone--Frankenstein, Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde--have become part of a universal language that serves to put a monster's face on the good-and-evil duality of our very human nature. And the authors--Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson--equally as mythic, are still possessed of an inventive and subversive power that can shake a reader to this day with something far more profound than fear. They gave root to the modern horror novel, and like the creatures they invented, they've achieved immortality.

Return to the dramatic world of 18th-century Scotland in Robert Louis Stevenson's "David Balfour, Second Part: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad." This historical fiction continues the captivating saga, plunging readers into a world of adventure across the Scottish Highlands and beyond. Stevenson, a master storyteller, weaves a tale deeply rooted in the history and spirit of Scotland. Experience the challenges and triumphs of the era through vivid prose and compelling narrative. This classic work of action and adventure captures the essence of a bygone time. "David Balfour, Second Part" offers a window into a richly imagined past, exploring themes of courage, resilience, and the enduring power of the human spirit. A timeless classic meticulously prepared for print republication. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Return to the dramatic world of 18th-century Scotland in Robert Louis Stevenson's "David Balfour, Second Part: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad." This historical fiction continues the captivating saga, plunging readers into a world of adventure across the Scottish Highlands and beyond. Stevenson, a master storyteller, weaves a tale deeply rooted in the history and spirit of Scotland. Experience the challenges and triumphs of the era through vivid prose and compelling narrative. This classic work of action and adventure captures the essence of a bygone time. "David Balfour, Second Part" offers a window into a richly imagined past, exploring themes of courage, resilience, and the enduring power of the human spirit. A timeless classic meticulously prepared for print republication. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This boxset contains seven of most popular novels ever written for children (and many adults). They are beautifully packaged in a rigid, matt-laminated slipcase, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork - the perfect gift for any book-lover. The set includes: 9781853261183 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9781853261220 - The Wind in the Willows 9781853261039 - Treasure Island 9781853261091 - Black Beauty 9781853261190 - The Jungle Book 9781853261046 - The Secret Garden 9781853261206 - Peter Pan

"Odnazhdy ja nachertil kartu ostrova; ona byla staratelno raskrashena; izgiby ee neobychajno uvlekli moe voobrazhenie; zdes byli bukhtochki, kotorye menja plenjali, kak sonety. Kogda ja uronil zadumchivyj vzgljad na kartu svoego ostrova Sokrovisch, sred pridumannykh lesov zashevelilis geroi moej buduschej knigi" - tak napisal Stivenson, vspominaja, s chego nachalsja roman, stavshij glavnym prikljuchencheskim chteniem dlja mnogikh pokolenij chitatelej. Personazhi i obrazy etoj uvlekatelnoj knigi s detstva zhivut v nashej pamjati: odnonogij pirat Dzhon Silver s popugaem, vossedajuschim na ego pleche i vosklitsajuschim: "Piastry, piastry!", Billi Bone, v chem sunduke khranilas karta znamenitogo ostrova so sprjatannymi sokrovischami piratskogo kapitana Flinta, strashnaja chernaja metka v ruke slepogo pirata, junyj Dzhim Khokins, glavnyj geroj romana, doktor Livsi, spravedlivyj, praktichnyj i chelovechnyj... Nemudreno, chto kniga imela mnozhestvo interpretatsij i prodolzhenij, tem bolee chto ee avtor sam ostavil v tekste dostatochno oborvannykh nitej, dajuschikh povod dlja dalnejshego razvitija temy. Perevodchik: Chukovskij N., Zhdanov L., Samujlov L., Gurevich D.

Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885. The novel was largely written during 1883. Stevenson referred to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort", one of the chapters was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and once by his wife. The Robert Louis Stevenson website maintains a complete list of derivative works.