Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme--the risky business of making a pact with the devil--this short story is a radiant jewel. It recounts the mercurial lot of Keawe, a Hawaiian who purchases a bottle inhabited by an imp capable of granting any wish. Yet this enticing object holds a dark curse: anyone who dies with it in his possession will burn forever in hell. And here\'s the rub: one can sell the bottle only for less than its purchase price. Keawe rids himself of the bottle after acquiring a palatial home. But when he needs it again to ensure his happiness with a newfound love, its cost is, chillingly, one cent, and the responsibility of ownership becomes a good deal more complex. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego.It seems he is master of his fate.It seems he is in complete control.But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price ...
Un homme abject et terrifiant hante les rues de Londres en commettant les pires forfaits. Ceux qui l'ont croisé restent frappés d'horreur, persuadés d'avoir rencontré le diable en personne. Pourtant, le respectable Dr Jekyll s'obstine a prendre la défense de l'ignoble M. Hyde. Par quel affreux secret les deux hommes sont-ils liés ? Chef-d'oeuvre incontournable de la littérature fantastique, L'Etrange Cas du Dr Jekyll et de M. Hyde met en scène le plus effroyable des monstres : celui qui se cache en chaque individu.
Puffin Classics bring the very best children's classics to a new generation.When young David Balfour's father dies and leaves him in poverty, he tracks down his Uncle Ebenezer to seek his inheritance. But his uncle is a mean, nasty man with a dark family secret. David finds himself in terrible danger when he is kidnapped and taken prisoner on board a ship bound for slavery - he must escape. With the help of daring rebel Alan Breck, David faces a wild adventure as he is hunted across the desolate Scottish moors.Robert Louis Stevenson's action adventure novel is brilliantly introduced by bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith.
Why has the mild mannered Dr Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? And why are they never seen together? When Jekyll's old friend Utterson tries to solve these mysteries he uncovers a horrific story of suffering and brutality that eventually leads to the terrible revelation of Mr Hyde's true identity.Accompanied here by three other memorable stories of horror, murder and the supernatural, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic literature by Robert Louis Stevenson, and one of the most potent and enduring of modern myths.This beautiful edition of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Other Stories features an afterword by playwright and screenwriter Peter Harness.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Escrita inicialmente por STEVENSON para complacer y entretener a su joven hijastro Lloyd Osbourne, y publicada después por entregas en la revista Young Folks, entre 1881 y 1882, bajo el seudónimo de Capitán George North, La isla del tesoro se ha convertido en su ya largo siglo de existencia en el clásico de la literatura de aventuras por excelencia, que ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo a lo largo de cinco generaciones. Jim Hawkins, hijo adolescente del dueño de la posada Almiral Benbow, frente a la solitaria bahía del Cerro Negro, va a experimentar un cambio radical en su rutinaria existencia cuando un viejo y extraño marino que se hospeda en la posada le confiesa, al borde del delirium tremens provocado por el ron, que formó parte de la tripulación del mítico capitán pirata Flint, y que esconde en su baúl algo que codician sus antiguos camaradas. Muerto el viejo bucanero, Jim descubre el misterioso mapa de una isla entre sus pertenencias... Más no debe contarse. No nos queda sino desear, aún con un poco de envidia, a aquellos lectores que lean esta historia por primera vez que se embarquen también con viento favorable a bordo de su imaginación en pos de ese impagable tesoro que constituyen estas páginas, tesoro que a buen seguro jamás olvidarán. Esta edición en bolsillo va acompañada por ilustraciones de la época.
Secuestrado narra de forma autobiográfica las aventuras del joven David Balfour, de cómo fue confinado y secuestrado, sus sufrimientos en una isla desierta y su viaje a las tierras altas de Escocia. La novela, inspirada en el proyecto real por asesinato contra un aventurero jacobita, proporciona un buen ejemplo del depurado estilo narrativo de Robert Louis Stevenson.
