Robert Louis Stevenson
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Dans le décor idyllique de Tahiti, Robert Louis Stevenson fait le récit d'un naufrage dramatique.
Papeete. Un navire de guerre français appareillait, à destination de la France : il se trouvait à mi-distance du port, tout fourmillant d'activité. Dans la nuit était arrivée une goélette, que l'on voyait à cette heure en rade, tout près de la passe, et le pavillon jaune, emblème de la contagion, flottait à son mât... Ce roman a été écrit,...
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"The Body Snatcher, The Suicide Club, and Other Tales" is a thrilling collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's lesser known novellas and short stories. In this volume you will find the following captivating tales: "The Suicide Club," "The Rajah's Diamond," "The Pavilion On The Links," "A Lodging For The Night," "The Sire De Malétroit's Door," "Providence And The Guitar," "The Merry Men," "Will O' The Mill," "Markheim," "Thrawn Janet," "Olalla," "The...
66) Viajar
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Narrador inolvidable, poeta valioso, viajero y acuñador de anécdotas biográficas, para conocer completamente el universo Stevenson es necesario visitar también su faceta ensayística, a la altura del resto de su obra, didáctica y cercana, pero también rigurosa y precisa. Envidiable.
Viajar reúne sus Ensayos sobre viajes, aquellos maravillosos textos en los volcó la que fuera —junto a la literatura— su gran pasión. Una mirada personalísima...
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En todos nosotros habita la dualidad del bien y el mal. Pero ¿qué pasaría si lográramos acceder a ese mal absoluto y este se apoderara de nuestro cuerpo? Esta es la pregunta que se responde en esta novela, donde el Dr. Jekyll, un doctor pacífico y respetable, crea una fórmula que abre la puerta a un ser que es pura maldad...
Esta historia clásica de Stevenson se acompaña en esta bella edición en tapa dura por ilustraciones a todo color que...
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Table of Contents:
BALLADS
A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
UNDERWOODS
SONGS OF TRAVEL
THE VAGABOND
YOUTH AND LOVE
WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE
MATER TRIUMPHANS
TO THE TUNE OF WANDERING WILLIE
WINTER
TO DR. HAKE
TO -
IF THIS WERE FAITH
MY WIFE
TO THE MUSE
TO AN ISLAND PRINCESS
TO KALAKAUA
TO PRINCESS KAIULANI
TO MOTHER MARYANNE
IN MEMORIAM E.H.
TO MY WIFE
TO MY OLD FAMILIARS
TO S. C.
THE HOUSE OF TEMBINOKA
THE SONG
THE WOODMAN
TROPIC RAIN
AN END OF TRAVEL
TO S.R....
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 18 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is part of the "Swanston Edition" of Stevenson's works, which was published in the early 20th century. The collection likely includes a variety of Stevenson's writings, including fiction, poetry, and essays.
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Eine Serie von mysteriösen Todesfällen gibt einige Rätsel auf. Ob der seltsame Londoner Klub damit zu tun hat, in den der exzentrische Prinz Florizel und Oberst Geraldine eines Abends geraten? Dort wird ein teuflisches Kartenspiel gespielt, das die beiden in große Gefahr bringt. Und warum liegt im Pariser Hotelbett eines amerikanischen Touristen eine Leiche, die später in einem Koffer in London auftaucht?
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Extrait: "C'était au mois de mai 1813 que j'avais eu le malheur de tomber aux mains des Anglais. Ma connaissance de la langue anglaise, - j'avais appris cette langue dès l'enfance et la parlais presque aussi aisément que le français, - m'avait valu d'être choisi par mon colonel pour certaine besogne des plus délicates."
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 24 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is part of the "Swanston Edition" of Stevenson's works, which was published in the early 20th century. The collection likely includes a variety of Stevenson's writings, including fiction, poetry, and essays.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known as the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of Stevenson's best essays-the only anthology of its kind- spans his brief life and includes many of his most celebrated pieces and some others previously unpublished....
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol 12 is a collection of works written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is part of the "Swanston Edition" of Stevenson's works, which was published in the early 20th century. The collection likely includes a variety of Stevenson's writings, including fiction, poetry, and essays.
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En 1876, un joven Robert Louis Stevenson y su amigo Walter Simpson se embarcaron en una expedición por los canales de Bélgica y del norte de Francia. El periplo, en dos balandros llamados Cigarette y Arethusa, se inició en Amberes el 25 de agosto y terminó en Pontoise, en los alrededores de París, a mediados de septiembre.
En una época en que viajar por placer en un medio de transporte tan incómodo era un hecho inusitado, Stevenson y su amigo...
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A short thriller and a comic crime novel by the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore murderous greed in nineteenth-century Scotland.
The Wrong Box: Two elderly brothers, Joseph and Masterman, are the last surviving members of an investment agreement known as a tontine. All their two nephews have to do to inherit everything is make sure Joseph outlives Masterman. But that's easier said than done. Robert Louis Stevenson cowrote...