Robert Louis Stevenson

&'Your bed shall be the moorcock&'s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer&'s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.&'Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan...

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most...

Shiver me timbers! Treasure Island tells the story of the young Jim Hawkins, who stumbles upon a map to a pirate's treasure as is brought onboard the expedition to find it as the ship's cabin boy. Things go awry when it is revealed that most of the crew are themselves pirates, led by the dastardly Long John Silver.The book has been filmed...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even by what was known of him; and that was but a small...