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Three beggars are entrusted to deliver a cargo of champagne after the sudden death of the crew for smallpox. The three see this as a simple way to make money, but the journey will not go according to

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) pubblico Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e Mister Hyde nel 1886. Loriginalita della scrittura sta nellequilibrio fra unaccesa fantasia e lo stile chiaro e preciso con cui gestisce idee, problemi e conflitti proiettandoli nelle situazioni piu strane ed inattese. Emblematico e appunto il racconto del dottor Jekyll e Mister Hyde in cui un caso di sdoppiamento della personalita assume un potenziale valore allegorico, esaltando le forze del bene e del male presenti nella natura umana.

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. This work includes David Balfour and the sequel Catriona. Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.Written as a "boys novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney.Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751. A young and naive but resourceful, whose parents have recently died and who is out to make his way in the world. How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws.As historical fiction, it is set around 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred near Ballachulish in 1752 in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising.

"Una mañana, un viejo marinero que tenía la cara marcada con la cicatriz de un sable, llegó hasta nuestra casa arrastrando un gastado baúl. Era alto y fuerte y llevaba el pelo recogido en una trenza negra. Sus manos, con las uñas sucias y recomidas sujetaban un baston. Dentro de la posada, el viejo marinero pidio un vaso de ron y, apurandolo de un solo trago, comenzo a hablar con mi madre."

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.

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.

Altxor Uhartea abenturazko eleberrien artean biribilena omen da, eredugarria. Jim Hawkins gazteak uharte baten mapa aurkitzen du pirata baten kutxan: mapa hark Flint kapitain pirata ospetsuaren altxorra non dagoen lurperatuta adierazten du. Eta espedizio oso bat abiatzen da haren bila Hispaniola belaontzian. Onak eta gaiztoak daude, Jim Hawkins protagonista edo kapitaina alde batetik, eta piratak bestetik, Silver Luzea buru dutela, baina Stevensonek jakin du giza ariman arakatzen eta gizakiaren alde agerikoak eta ezkutukoak nabarmentzen nobelan zehar abenturen harian; hala, gertatzen da Silver piratak baduela alde ilun bat, baina, aldi berean, ateratzen zaizkio bere alde argiak, gizatasunezkoak ere. Altxor Uhartea irakurtzea abenturak bizitzea da, eta abentura beti da arriskutsua eta horregatik baita zirraragarria ere. Arriskuan eta egoera larrietan giza arima ateratzen da, ordea, eta hor beldurrak, birtuteak, miseriak eta bestelako giza ezaugarriak erakusten dira. Bai, dudarik gabe, Altxor Uhartea abenturazko nobelen artean biribila eta eredugarria da. Eta Rober Louis Stevenson maisu agertzen da, klasiko bat, hitzaren esanahirik ederrenean.

Classic / British English Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will?

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in sthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. This ignorance at least is largely irremediable. We shall never learn the affinities of beauty, for they lie too deep in nature and too far back in the mysterious history of man. The amateur, in consequence, will always grudgingly receive details of method, which can be stated but never can wholly be explained; nay, on the principle laid down in Hudibras, that Still the less they understand, the more they admire the sleight-of-hand, many are conscious at each new disclosure of a diminution in the ardour of their pleasure. I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces.

"Eu admiro tudo em Stevenson. Admiro o homem, o trabalho, a coragem. Acho que ele nunca escreveu sequer uma linha desinteressante ou sem valor. Todas as frases de Stevenson so boas."Jorge Luis BorgesDr. Jekyll e um renomado medico em Londres. Homem de posses, consegue conciliar seu trabalho diario com seus experimentos cientificos, atraves dos quais busca realizar um desejo secreto. Sua determinaço se baseia em uma unica convicço: "O homem no e verdadeiramente um ser, mas dois." Enfim, dr. Jekyll cria uma poço que o permite liberar seu lado mais vil. Na personalidade de Mr. Hyde, as atitudes mais violentas so tomadas, deixando para o medico a integridade dos bons atos. Mas um desfecho surpreendente pe em xeque a aparente liberdade e o controle do medico.

«Después de todo, medité, era como mis prójimos, y sonreí comparándome con otros hombres, comparando mi buena voluntad con la perezosa crueldad de su negligencia».Una inquietante irrupción altera el

STEVENSON, ROBERT L.Robert Louis Stevenson consideraba que el asunto central de las novelas de aventuras reside en la sensación de peligro. De ahí que los personajes se describan sólo en la medida en que son conscientes del mismo. Por eso, Stevenson no dudara en embarcar a Jim Hawkins, el heroe adolescente, audaz y valiente, en un viaje inicieiico y de madurez repleto de peligras, a causa de un misterioso y codiciado mapa que escondia un fabuloso tesoro enterrado en una isla desconocida.

"Treasure Island" is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders."Treasure Island" is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. It was originally serialized in the childrens magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title "Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola", credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North".

This book helps you 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.

''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver. ''it renewed all the forgotten delight I found in it as a child'' Ian Hamilton, Scotland on Sunday ''Treasure Island will surely become--it must already have become, and will remain--in its way a classic.''--Henry James. An absorbing tale of buccaneers and a romantic quest for treasure, Treasure Island is also the portrait of the briliantly drawn character, Long John Silver.

Classic / British English (Available March 2008) After his parents die, young David Balfour goes to the house of his uncle Ebenezer. But his uncle is a dangerous man. When he puts David on a ship to America, a difficult and dangerous time begins. But who is the stranger on the ship? Can he help David?

El tema de la lucha del hombre entre el bien y el mal no es nuevo en la literatura, pues siempre se han contado relatos sobre la doble naturaleza de las personas; lo que sí es nuevo en EL EXTRAÑO CASO DEL DR. JEKYLL Y MR. HYDE, y de ahi su consideracion de clasico, es el tratamiento argumental y el estilo que le imprime su autor. Stevenson se asegura de que lo fantastico se funda con lo realista o de que la culpa se amalgame con la busqueda; consigue asomarse a la miseria y a la grandeza humanas y nos muestra la doble naturaleza del ser humano que vive en nuestro interior. Su obra contiene todos los ingredientes necesarios para ser acogida favorablemente en aquella epoca de finales del siglo XIX.