Robert Louis Stevenson: Die tollen Manner The Merry Men. Erstdruck in Cornhill Magazine, 1882. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Marguerite Thesing. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Ivan Aivazovsky, Segler im Sturm, 1881. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." It was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North." It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co. Treasure Island is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is also noted as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of...

Treasure Island (1883), By Robert Louis Stevenson, adventure novel (Original Classics): Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." It was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North." It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co. Treasure Island is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story,...

Kidnapped is an historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893. Kidnapped is set around 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder," which occurred near Ballachulish in 1752 in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745Many of the characters were real people, including one of the...

Una novela escrita por Robert Louis Stevenson y publicada por primera vez en ingles en 1886, que trata acerca de un abogado, Gabriel John Utterson, que investiga la extrana relacion entre su viejo amigo, el Dr. Henry Jekyll, y el misantropo Edward Hyde. El libro es conocido por ser una representacion vivida de un trastorno psiquiatrico que hace que una misma persona tenga dos o mas identidades o personalidades con caracteristicas opuestas entre si. En psiquiatria, esto hace referencia al trastorno disociativo de la identidad (anteriormente conocido como trastorno de personalidad multiple). No...

Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae.""