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Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson.
From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers.
Here is a very special collection to be treasured for ever.
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Год | 2008 |
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other....
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Журналистские расследования |
| Год | 2009 |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "An Inland Voyage" is a travelogue about author's canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. This book is one of Stevenson's early works pioneering the genre of outdoor literature.
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. The story of "Beach of Falesa" told from John Wiltshire's point of view, a British copra trader on the fictional island of Falesa in the South Sea. There he meets a trader Case, who arranges a marriage for him and a local girl...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Catriona" starts right where the previous novel "Kidnapped" ends, continuing the story of David . Now he tries to clear the names of his friends of involvement in the murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure. The political climate...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry lekyll discovers a monster. First published to immediate acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson`s reputuation as a writer.Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables"."The Merry Men" is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; "Markheim", the...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekylls control puts all of London in grave peril.
| Автор | Stevenson R., Robert Stevenson |
| Год | 2016 |
"…losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse." Victorian London is the setting for The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Stevenson's famous story of conflict between dual personalities: one good, and one ruthlessly evil. Other eerie tales in this volume are: The Body Snatcher (1881) inspired by the case of Burke and Hare; Markheim (1885) where a murderer meets a sinister smiling stranger; and The Bottle Imp (1893) in...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
'Mr Hyde?' Utterson asked. The small man did not look at Utterson. 'That is my name,' he said in a low voice. 'What do you want?' 'I am a friend of Dr Henry Jekyll,' said Utterson. 'You won't find him here,' said Mr Hyde. 'How do you know who I am?' 'Dr Jekyll told me about you,' said Utterson. 'He never told you,' said Mr Hyde. 'You're lying!' Mr Hyde opened the door quickly. He disappeared into...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2016 |
The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenson's story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows him to bring his own appalling double to life. The finest horror story in our language, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is also a metaphysical fairy tale of stunning perspicacity. Also included in this collection are Markheim, A Lodging for the Night, Thrawn...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Год | 1992 |
How thin is the line between good and evil? Discover the classic tale of gothic horror Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll's control puts...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2007 |
".. losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse." Victorian London is the setting for The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Stevenson's famous story of conflict between dual personalities: one good, and one ruthlessly evil. Other eerie tales in this volume are: The Body Snatcher (1881) inspired by the case of Burke and Hare; Markheim (1885) where a murderer meets a sinister smiling stranger; and The Bottle Imp (1893)...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster First published to immediate acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a writer. Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. The Merry Men is я gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim, a sinister...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Why does the frightening Mr Hyde seem to have power over the nice Dr Jekyll? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Hyde, but he has disappeared. Or has he?
13,232 words.
British English.
Retold by John Escott.
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Год | 2008 |
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize...
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Год | 2008 |
'...man is not truly one, but truly two.' In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud's theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelganger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent...
| Автор | Stevenson R., Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "In the South Seas" is another Stevenson's traveling memoir, which extensively describes his journey to the Pacific. It includes travels to Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tuamotu Islands and many more places.
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "Island Nights' Entertainments" is a collection of three wonderful short stories: "The Beach of Falesa," "The Bottle Imp," and "The Isle of Voices."
| Автор | Robert Stevenson |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |