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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold." First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality-as seen in Long John Silver-unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The...

Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevensons three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. It describes Stevensons arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train.

This collection of literary essays by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) explores the lives and works of nine writers from around the world and across the centuries, including Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman and Samuel Pepys. Published together in 1882, the studies here had previously appeared in periodicals, chiefly the Cornhill Magazine, and are known for their conversational style and unusual combination of character assessment and scholarly critique. In his preface, Stevenson describes the book as 'the readings of a literary vagrant', emphasising that the essays were inspired by a...

This short novel, published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), may well be more familiar in its many stage, film and television adaptations than in its original form, while 'Jekyll and Hyde' has become the shorthand for a character who seems to have a 'split personality'. Stevenson claimed that the main features of the story came to him in a dream, and he wrote it very rapidly, though ill and bedridden at the time. Priced at one shilling (the genre of macabre and horror stories was known as the 'shilling shocker'), it was an immediate success. Though not the first of Stevenson's...

To The Hesitating Purchaser: If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons and Buccaneers and buried Gold, and all the old romance, retold exactly in the ancient way, can please, as me they pleased of old, the wiser youngsters of today: So be it, and fall on If not, if studious youth no longer crave, his ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also And may I and all my pirates share the grave where these and their creations lie Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the...

... nun aber war ich Freiwild fur jeden, gejagt, obdachlos, ein weithin bekannter Morder, dem Galgen geweiht." Die Schauernovelle des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson ( Die Schatzinsel") zahlt zu den beruhmtesten Adaptionen des Doppelgangermotivs in der Weltliteratur. In ihrer Vielschichtigkeit bis heute faszinierend, wurde sie pragend fur das moderne Horrorgenre. Vollstandig neu ubersetzt von Susanne Mussehl."

Robert Louis Stevenson: Der Selbstmorderklub The Suicide Club. Erstdruck in London Magazine, 1878. Hier in der Ubersetzung von Max Pannwitz, erschienen unter dem Titel Der Selbstmordklub. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Childe Hassam, Kutschen in der Nacht, 1892. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."