Bøger af R. L. Stevenson

I året 1745 indlogerer den gamle sørøver Billy Bones sig på en kro i Bristol. Med sig har han et dyrebart skattekort, og han beder kroejernes søn Jim Hawkins holde udkig efter andre sømænd. Det viser sig, at Billys gamle skibskammerater også er ude efter skattekortet og forsøger at angribe kroen. Da Billy dør uventet, lykkes det Jim at sikre sig skattekortet, og sammen med godsejeren Trelawney og lægen Livesay drager han af sted på skattejagt. Ombord på skibet Hispaniola sætter den etbenede skibskok Long John Silver et mytteri i gang, og det står klart for Jim, at han ikke kan stole på besætningen. Med hjælp fra Trelawney og Livesay forsøger han at overleve rejsen mod skatteøens kyst. Denne udgave er oversat og bearbejdet af Kai Flor (1886-1965).Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) var en skotsk forfatter. Han skrev en lang række skønlitterære værker, noveller, skuespil og rejseskildringer, men er bedst kendt for romanerne "Skatteøen" fra 1883 og "Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde" fra 1886. Som barn blev han ramt af tuberkulose, og han var mærket af sygdommen hele livet. På trods af dette insisterede han på at rejse verden rundt og arbejde med sine bøger. I 1890 bosatte han sig på Samoa, hvor han fire år senere blev ramt af en hjerneblødning og døde i en alder af blot 44 år.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Markheim es un relato sobre un motivo constante en la obra de Stevenson: el demoniocomo forma depurada de la presencia del mal en el mundo. Markheim, sin embargo, le mira como a un ser "que no procedía ni de la tierra ni de Dios", pero, de cualquier modo, ligado al mal.El demonio acude al asesinato cometido por Markheim, como buitre a su carroña. El protagonista de la obra rechaza la ayuda "No haré nada que me ligue voluntariamente al mal". El mal de Markheim, su pecado, es el de una naturaleza humana contradicha, el de un hombre, como otros, a quien la vida "lleva a rastras", porque es "el pecador que no quiere serlo". Por ello, se remite a Dios y a su juicio y echa en cara al diablo su torpeza por no leer en su alma. Markheim no ve la causa de su pecado en el mal sino en la pobreza y en las circunstancias de su vida, y se reconoce tan capaz de hacer el mal como el bien. Antes de su entrega voluntaria a la justicia, Markheim verá desfilar ante sí su pasado como "el escenario de una derrota", atento ya sólo a buscar para su vida un refugio tranquilo.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), fue un novelista, poeta y ensayista escocés y uno de los exponente de la llamada novela-narración y del romance. Debido a una enfermedad en sus pulmones, viajó a múltiples destinos lo largo de su vida en búsqueda de climas cálidos. La alegoría moral del bien y el mal está presente en sus obras que desencadena relatos de misterio y aventura.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.El cuento narra la oscura historia de un estudiante de medicina de Reino Unido, que se ve involucrado en el negocio ilegal de profanación de cuerpos para su posterior estudio. Esta situación inicial culmina con la rápida huida del Doctor, y la posterior salida de Fettes de la escena, dejando la intriga en el lector y en el resto de los personajes.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), fue un novelista, poeta y ensayista escocés y uno de los exponente de la llamada novela-narración y del romance. Debido a una enfermedad en sus pulmones, viajó a múltiples destinos lo largo de su vida en búsqueda de climas cálidos. La alegoría moral del bien y el mal está presente en sus obras que desencadena relatos de misterio y aventura.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano."Los hombres Dichosos" son los arrecifes que se observan desde Eilean Aros, la casa a la que Charlie, el protagonista de esta historia, regresa tras su formación universitaria, en pos del tesoro de un viejo galeón español perteneciente a la Armada Invencible, el "Espíritu Santo". En Eilean Aros conviven Rorie, el viejo mayordomo, la prima Mary- Ellen, el padre de ésta, Gordon Darnaway, los recuerdos de infancia y el Mar, aquí una deidad terrible que provoca un terror reverencial. A pesar de sus muchos elementos, todos ellos combinados con enorme soltura, "Los hombres Dichosos" es una historia que escarba en los sustratos íntimos derivados de un ambiente opresivo. La locura y la perfidia corren de la mano en la historia que más imágenes legará para la posteridad. Un drama rural que pudo haber inspirado a John Ford para "El hombre Tranquilo" o a John Meade Falkner para su excepcional "Moonfleet", en mi opinión, la segunda mejor novela de piratería de todos los tiempos (tras "La isla del tesoro").Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894), fue un novelista, poeta y ensayista escocés y uno de los exponente de la llamada novela-narración y del romance. Debido a una enfermedad en sus pulmones, viajó a múltiples destinos lo largo de su vida en búsqueda de climas cálidos. La alegoría moral del bien y el mal está presente en sus obras que desencadena relatos de misterio y aventura.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Un misterioso marino con una pata de palo se esconde en la posada Almirante Benbow, y desde el momento en que el joven Jim Hawks se apodera del mapa de una isla desierta donde se esconde una fortuna en oro robado, nada volverá a ser igual.Jim, Squire Trelawney y el doctor Livesey se embarcan junto al capitán Smollet en la Hispaniola rumbo a la más fascinante aventura de todos los tiempos. Pronto descubrirán que la tripulación está formada por villanos y filibusteros a las órdenes de John Silver, cocinero y pirata a bordo, quien también codicia el tesoro...Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), fue un novelista, poeta y ensayista escocés y uno de los exponentes de la llamada novela-narración y del romance. Debido a una enfermedad en sus pulmones, viajó a múltiples destinos a lo largo de su vida en búsqueda de climas cálidos. La alegoría moral del bien y el mal está presente en sus obras que desencadena relatos de misterio y aventura.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) var en skotsk forfatter. Han skrev både romaner, digte, essays og rejseskildringer. Ud over Kidnappet er han manden bag de berømte romaner Skatteøen og Dr. Jekyll og Mr. Hyde og er en af de mest oversatte forfattere nogensinde.Den unge David Balfourt bliver efter forældrenes død sendt til sin hidtil ukendte rige onkel Ebenezer. Her går det op for ham, at han muligvis er den retmæssige arving til familiens ejendom, men inden han kan gøre krav kidnappes han og sejles bort med henblik på at blive solgt til slaveri. Skibet forulykker og David kastes i land på en øde ø og starter sin eventyrlige hjemrejse, der for en stor del foregår i selskab med den modige og uregerlige skotske jacobinske oprører Alan Breck Stewart. Under dramatiske omstændigheder oplever David de skotske klaners oprør mod det engelske kongedømme og stridighederne mellem de oprørske klaner og de klaner der støtter englænderne. Det lykkes ved fælles hjælp David og Allan at slippe helskindet gennem farerne.”En spændende eventyr historie og et fængslende indblik i den skotske historie og den skotske karakter. Kidnappet har ikke mistet noget af sin fascination … Kidnappet er Stevensons mesterværk, en uforglemmelig handlingsmættet roman, som har inspireret så forskellige forfattere som Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Graham Greene og Muriel Spark.” – Robert McCrum''Et mesterværk.'' – Henry James

The Amateur Emigrant, an autobiographical account of Stevenson's voyage from Scotland to California in 1879, is a rich and provocative work of late-Victorian travel writing and cultural criticism.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ON the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion. But Jenkin was a man much more remarkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was in the world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude towards life, by his high moral value and unwearied intellectual effort, that he struck the minds of his contemporaries. His was an individual figure, such as authors delight to draw, and all men to read of, in the pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for its own sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait, if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make new friends, the fault will be altogether mine.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Gentlemen, - In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our defenders. Whoever be in the right in this great and confused war of politics; whatever elements of greed, whatever traits of the bully, dishonour both parties in this inhuman contest; - your side, your part, is at least pure of doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the breeding woman, of individual pity and public trust. If our society were the mere kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of his colours) it yet embraces many precious elements and many innocent persons whom it is a glory to defend. Courage and devotion, so common in the ranks of the police, so little recognised, so meagrely rewarded, have at length found their commemoration in an historical act. History, which will represent Mr. Parnell sitting silent under the appeal of Mr. Forster, and Gordon setting forth upon his tragic enterprise, will not forget Mr. Cole carrying the dynamite in his defenceless hands, nor Mr. Cox coming coolly to his aid.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company's office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explo-rations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long-egged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend - if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins - if there be any of them left; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life. You are still - as when first I saw, as when I last addressed you - in the venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there far in the north, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet, on these ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the romance of destiny.

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature's most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, in hardback with its 1929 cover design and a brand new introduction.

A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed.

As Stevenson's most complete exercise in the art of the essay and the last of the 3 volumes of essays whose collection, arrangement and revision he planned and executed in his lifetime, this volume shows the brilliance of his mature style.

A substantial essay explores the complex early publication history of the novel Weir of Hermiston on both sides of the Atlantic, and exceptionally full explanatory notes and other background information are provided.

A compelling story of father-son confrontation, Stevenson was working on this novel the day he died.

Originally entitled Life at Twenty-Five, Stevenson's first collection of essays conducts conversations with the reader about the most satisfying ways to rebel against Victorian respectability in the areas of love, marriage, money and leisure.

A new edition of RLS's poetry, including many previously unpublished pieces.