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.

Follow the adventures of Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island. Jim is just an innkeeper's son. He knows nothing about pirates or treasure, until an old pirate dies in his parents' inn. Jim takes possession of a map and sets sail to find the secrets of Treasure Island. Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend your children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce your readers to significant authors, powerful plots and characters that have stood the test of time. These abridged versions of classics have been...

In Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mr Utterson is concerned when he receives a will from his friend Dr Jekyll. In it, he asks for all his possessions to be passed to the sinister Edward Hyde. Utterson suspects that something is very wrong, but he finds that things are far worse than he could have imagined. Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend your children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce your readers to significant authors, powerful plots and characters that have stood the test of time. These abridged...

In Kidnapped the orphan, David Balfour, sets out to meet his unknown uncle. Time and again he finds himself in terrible danger - nearly killed by his uncle, threatened by cut-throat sailors and wanted by the King's soldiers. Will he ever be safe again? Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend your children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce your readers to significant authors, powerful plots and characters that have stood the test of time. These abridged versions of classics have been sensitively...

Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce readers to significant authors, powerful plots and characters that have stood the test of time. These abridged versions of classics have been sensitively adapted by top children's authors to ensure that language and content is appropriate, but remain faithful to the original. These enchanting stories will appeal to all children and introduce them to a rich literary heritage. Each book includes author biographies and...

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."