Robert Louis Stevenson
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What if the real danger wasn't the monster in the shadows-but the one inside you?
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a timeless exploration of the duality within human nature-our inner struggle between virtue and vice, light and darkness. This gripping novella, first published in 1886, continues to captivate readers with its eerie atmosphere, shocking twists, and profound moral questions.
In this modernized...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) foi um poeta, contista e romancista escocês e suas obras refletiram sua personalidade viajante e aventureira atraindo leitores de todas as idades. Autor de obras inesquecíveis como A Ilha do Tesouro e O Médico e o Monstro, Stevenson é um grande contador de histórias. Daquelas que agarram o leitor até o último ponto final. Em O Clube dos Suicidas, (1878) são narradas quatro histórias, três das quais vividas...
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Este livro é uma versão adaptada para novos leitores! - Todo mundo tem um lado bom e um lado mau. "O médico e o monstro" conta como o Dr. Jekyll, um respeitado médico inglês, vai se afastando do convívio com os amigos, ao mesmo tempo em que começa a ficar sob a influência do assustador e misterioso Sr. Hyde. A partir do momento em que alguns crimes brutais passam a assustar os moradores da Londres, um amigo do Dr. Jekyll, o advogado Utterson,...
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The famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in a new beautiful Pook Press edition, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth
A swashbuckling tale of pirates, maps and treasure. The story begins with an old sailor who appears an inn on the west English coast, talking of a sea chest and secret treasure map. When the sailor dies, his charge is left with Jim, the innkeeper's son, who discovers the chest and map. In no time,...
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Part 6: Captain Silver from Treasure Island:
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action...
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Step into a world of enchantment, danger, and mystery in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Isle of Voices.
Keola, a young Hawaiian man, becomes entangled in the sorceries of his father-in-law, Kalamake - a cunning warlock whose wealth flows from sinister and otherworldly sources. Transported across oceans by spells of fire and smoke, Keola discovers an island haunted by invisible presences, flickering fires, and voices that whisper in countless tongues....
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Dans les rues sombres du Londres victorien, un homme respectable cache un terrible secret. Le Dr Henry Jekyll, brillant scientifique, croit avoir trouvé le moyen de séparer le bien du mal dans l'âme humaine. Mais son expérience tourne au cauchemar. De ses recherches naît Mr Edward Hyde, incarnation pure de la cruauté et du vice. Petit à petit, Hyde prend le dessus, échappant au contrle de Jekyll. Ce roman haletant de Robert Louis Stevenson...
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Ce court roman captivant nous plonge dans l'univers sombre et troublant du docteur Jekyll, un homme respecté qui cache un terrible secret. En expérimentant une potion qu'il a lui-même créée, il libère en lui une seconde personnalité : le sinistre M. Hyde.
À la frontière entre le fantastique et le psychologique, Le Cas étrange du docteur Jekyll explore le dualisme de la nature humaine, entre lumière et obscurité, morale et pulsions.
10) The Toll House
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The Toll House, standing alone by the wayside under nodding pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing a straw; a glimpse of the Chinese cook in the back parts; and Mr. Hoddy in the bar, gravely alert and serviceable, and equally anxious to lend or borrow books; dozed all day in the dusty sunshine, more than half asleep. There were no neighbours,...
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Doble identidad, oscuros secretos y la delgada línea entre el bien y el mal.
En el Londres victoriano, el respetado doctor Henry Jekyll guarda un secreto aterrador. Obsesionado con separar las fuerzas opuestas del alma humana, crea una fórmula que libera su lado más oscuro: el brutal y despiadado señor Hyde.
Mientras Hyde comete actos cada vez más atroces, Jekyll pierde el control sobre su monstruosa creación. La transformación, al principio...
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Era novembre inoltrato, nel 1456. La neve cadeva fitta fitta su Parigi con incessante ostinazione; a volte veniva via una raffica di vento che la rammulinava in vortici fuggenti; a volte l'aria si quietava e, falda dietro falda, essa ripigliava a cadere giú da quella nera notte, silenziosa, a spirali, interminabile. Alla povera gente che la guardava cadere attraverso le sopracciglia ammollate, pareva meraviglia...
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Le 28 septembre 1878, en compagnie de son ânesse Modestine, Robert-Louis Stevenson s'élance sur le chemin qui porte aujourd'hui son nom. Il est persuadé que son équipée libèrera ses bronches, apaisera ses nerfs, le consolera de ses chagrins d'amour et de ses querelles avec son père et nourrira son imagination.
Deux cent cinquante kilomètres dans une des régions les plus sauvages de France, o l'on vit encore dans la terreur de la bête du...
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c2024
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In...

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