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Nos encontramos en el antiguo Londres de finales del siglo XIX. El señor Utterson, un prestigioso abogado londinense, ha escuchado una historia de su amigo, el señor Enfield, que despierta su curiosidad. Asi, Utterson comienza una investigacion para averiguar la verdadera identidad de Mr. Hyde, un hombre que se presenta muy unido a un viejo amigo conocido como el doctor Jekyll. Sus investigaciones llevan a Utterson, en primer lugar, a un testamen

Keawe es un hawaiano que siente la necesidad de conocer otras tierras, por lo que se dirige a San Francisco (Estados Unidos). Allí descubre una casa preciosa cuyo dueño parece algo triste y demacrado. Al entablar conversacion con el y preguntarle el motivo de su tristeza, el viejo le enseña una botella de vidrio blanco en cuyo interior estan todos los colores del arco iris. Robert Louis Stevenson.

Los colonos de Silverado describe las andanzas y peripecias acaecidas durante la nada convencional luna de miel de Stevenson y su mujer, Fanny Osbourne, por las montañas de California, donde se alojaron en una mina de plata abandonada de la legendaria Silverado.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyd

"La misma temperatura en Inglaterra no hubiera chocado en pleno estío, pero era cruelmente fría para el Mar del Sur... Y aquellos tres hombres la sentían también y tiritaban. Llevaban livianas ropas de algodon, las mismas en que habian sudado por el dia, y aguantado los aguaceros tropicales; y para colmar su cuita, no habian desayunado, habian pasado por alto la comida y les habia faltado la cena.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyd

Stevenson tenía 30 años cuando comenzó a escribir La isla del tesoro, su primer éxito como novelista. Los quince primeros capítulos fueron escritos en Braemar, en las Tierras Altas escocesas, en 1881. Era un verano tardio, frio y lluvioso y Stevenson estaba con cinco miembros de su familia de vacaciones en una casita en el campo.

In writing this, his third, book for boys, Stevenson turned from scenes and characters of pure invention to real people and places of a minor incident of Scottish history. The Appin murder, which provides the turning point of the story, has thereby become known to thousands who had not before heard of Alan Breck or the wrongly condemned James Stewart. The Highlands, in their unsettled state after the 45, are made the setting for the adventures of the sober David Balfour, in whose prim ways and staid talk Stevenson found the contrast with the rebel spirits of the Highland Jacobites. Save for the change of year from 1752 to 175 1, he keeps very close to the historical facts, as may be seen from the outline of these latter in the chapter on the Appin murder on another page. A single episode of this kind, grafted on to imaginary adventures, just suited Stevensons genius for romantic incident, while it did not lay upon him the physical strain of managing a full stage of historical characters in the manner of Dumas or Scott. Thus Kidnapped has the features of both an historical romance and a boys book of adventure. In blending the two Stevenson satisfied his young readers, and compelled the admiration of such non-adventurous bookmen as Matthew Arnold and Henry James.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. This is different from multiple personality disorder where the different personalities do not necessarily differ in any moral sense. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevensons best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances.

The publishers of Young Folks having asked for a successor to Treasure Island, Stevenson turned to the period of the Wars of the Roses as a setting for a tale of adventure frankly written for youthful readers. The only preparation a boy needs for enjoying "The Black Arrow " is some slight acquaintance with Shakespeare or Walter Scott; nay, if he have but skimmed the briefest history of the brave old medieval times, and knows what a part in them the long-bow and the cross-bow played, and what a salet is, and what a lance, he will need no further introduction to this tale of the early days of Richard Crookbacka tale "retold" (like that of the search for buried treasure) "exactly in the ancient way." Or if the telling differ from that to which he is accustomed, it will be because Mr. Stevenson writes with a pen so much more graphic, poetic, and incisive than the ancient chroniclers. Not content with weaving a plot that shall hold the reader spell-bound, he perfects his style with such care that not a superfluous or an ill-fitting word is to be found from start to finish.

Stevenson concebeu A ilha do tesouro para o divertimento de seu enteado, Lloyd Osbourne, que tinha doze anos em 1881. Escrevendo a seu amigo W. H. Henley a respeito do novo livro, ele declarou que "se isto no encantar os garotos, ora, ento eles mudaram muito desde que eu era criança". Uma historia de piratas, com um mapa, um tesouro, um motim e um cozinheiro de bordo com uma perna so, A ilha do tesouro permanece uma das historias de aventuras mais amadas da literatura. - L&PM

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on 23 May 1883, it was originally serialized in the childrens magazine Young Folks between 1881 and 1882 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Islan