The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 1998
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7 Best Short Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8577770249
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson has an important place in the history of the short story in the British Isles: the form had been elaborated and developed in America, France and Russia from the mid-19th century, but it was Stevenson who initiated the British tradition. Stevenson's Calvinist creation and his constant struggle against ill health led to his preoccupation with death and the darker side of human nature as revealed in his work. Despite Stevenson's claim that "fiction is to adult man what the toy represents to the child," he had, at the end of his life, mastered a huge variety of types of fiction, from tales of historical adventures and novels of swordsmen to horror stories in Gothic style. In this selection of his most interesting works you will find the following stories: The Waif Woman The Bottle Imp Thrawn Janet Markheim The Body Snatcher Olalla Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307796841
Book Description
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as “The Beach of Falesá” and Stevenson’s previously uncollected stories. Arthur Conan Doyle has written that “[Stevenson’s] short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes explanatory notes, a Scots’ Glossary, and a unique appendix dedicated to Stevenson’s influence on the Oxford English Dictionary.
Treasure Island
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1918
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Book Description
South Sea Tales
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199536082
Book Description
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479417414
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for his classicn ovels, such as Treasure Island. This volume includes "The Dynamiter," a collection of connected short stories by Stevenson, including: Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb, and Story of the Fair Cuban.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781607103158
Book Description
No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the greatest works of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose stories of excitement and adventure will never be forgotten. He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold. He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling with the darkest parts of their souls. Acclaimed Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was a master whose works offer compelling insight into our hearts and minds. Featuring the full texts of Treasure Island, Prince Otto, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, The Master of Ballantrae, and David Balfour, this Canterbury Classics edition collects Stevenson's greatest yarns in an elegant, leather-bound book. With gilded edges, a ribbon bookmark, and an introduction by a renowned Stevenson scholar, this new edition is the perfect gift or keepsake. Readers will want to keep Robert Louis Stevenson forever—and go on a never-ending adventure!
The Waif Woman
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
"The Waif Woman" by Robert Louis Stevenson was a short story that didn't see the light of day until two decades after Stevenson's death. The author is famed for his stories of adventure and supernatural events, however, this story was suppressed by request of the writer. Written as a magical fairytale or myth, Stevenson weaves an atmosphere in his signature style. Thus, it is fortunate that this story was found and published before it could fade into obscurity forever.
Thrawn Janet
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2024
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ISBN : 9180949185
Book Description
In a small Scottish village the Reverends housekeeper is rumoured to be involved with witchcraft. As strange and terrifying events unfold, the villagers' darkest fears come to life. Stevenson's masterful use of the Scots dialect and atmospheric setting enhances the eerie and unsettling mood of this gothic narrative. »Thrawn Janet« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Robert Louis Stevenson: An Anthology
Author : Kevin MacNeil
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0857903497
Book Description
First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's essays, fables and short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares – a collection of their favourite works of non-fiction, short stories and fables. The themes – integrity, intellectual and imaginative truth, literary meaning, the fantastic – are common to all three authors, and these connections are explored in an introduction by Kevin MacNeil. Including such classic tales as 'The Bottle Imp' and rare essays on crime, morality, dreams and romance, Robert Louis Stevenson: The Argentina Edition is rich, eloquent and utterly readable.
