Conto clássico de Robert Louis Stevenson, publicado originalmente em 1884, no qual, inspirado em eventos bizarros ocorridos no século XIX no Reino Unido, dois jovens estudantes de medicina se veem envolvidos com atividades ilegais que o levam a flertar com o macabro. A historia inspirou o filme "O Tumulo Vazio", de 1945, estrelado por Boris Karloff.
O jovem Jim Hawkins é filho dos proprietários do albergue Almirante Benbow, onde ele conhece o marujo Billy Bones, um velho lobo do mar. Desse encontro inusitado resulta uma expedição cheia de riscos
A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which have influenced me", "A note on realism", "My first book: Treasure Island", "The genesis of the master of Ballantrae"& "Preface to the master of Ballantrae".
En estos tres relatos el genial escritor escocés nos ofrece su inconfundible combinación de indagación psicológica, acción, fantasía y minuciosa descripción ambiental. El diablo de la botella recrea una fabula alegorica en los Mares del Sur, La costa de Falesa conjuga la mirada introspectiva con el relato de aventuras en un perfecto equilibrio teñido de ironia y La isla de las Voces nos acerca a una historia magica, repleta de misterio y horror, en las islas del sur.
A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.During one of his audacious experiments trying to separate good from evil in human nature, the kind and gifted Dr Jekyll inadvertently unleashes an alternative personality of pure evil the mysterious Mr Hyde.As this sinister figure starts causing terror and havoc in foggy London, Jekyll must race to find a cure for his monstrous alter-ego before it takes over for good.This version by David Edgar, first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1996, is a revised and partially re-written version of the adaptation premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, in 1991.
On a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell upon Tunstall Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour. Far and near, in the forest and in the fields along the river, people began to desert their labours and hurry towards the sound; and in Tunstall hamlet a group of poor country-folk stood wondering at the summons.Tunstall hamlet at that period, in the reign of old King Henry VI., wore much the same appearance as it wears today. A score or so of houses, heavily framed with oak, stood scattered in a long green valley ascending from the river. At the foot, the road crossed a bridge, and mounting on the other side, disappeared into the fringes of the forest on its way to the Moat House, and further forth to Holywood Abbey. Half-way up the village, the church stood among yews. On every side the slopes were crowned and the view bounded by the green elms and greening oak-trees of the forest.Hard by the bridge, there was a stone cross upon a knoll, and here the group had collectedhalf a dozen women and one tall fellow in a russet smockdiscussing what the bell betided. An express had gone through the hamlet half an hour before, and drunk a pot of ale in the saddle, not daring to dismount for the hurry of his errand; but he had been ignorant himself of what was forward, and only bore sealed letters from Sir Daniel Brackley to Sir Oliver Oates, the parson, who kept the Moat House in the masters absence.
Theres a sinister man about London town with something of the night about him. Mr Hyde is mad, bad and has a penchant for bumping off MPs and other kindly innocents. Will his friend Dr Jekyll be able to stop him? Or is there something more to their relationship than meets the eye...? Only the intrepid Utterson can get to the bottom of this mystery, but what will he find in Dr Jekylls lab?
Compilado y traducido por Matías Battistón.
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