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Occasionally an author appears who, in a short career, emblazons a legacy so bright and so distinct, as well as popular, that it is difficult to believe it is the output of only one man. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was such a talent. Over the course of his prolific career, Stevenson had not only given his audience many classic novels but beautiful poetry such as ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ and many short stories as with his dark classic of Christmas Day ‘Markheim’ (1884).

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words. Whether it’s a long-lost returning soldier wondering how best to return to the arms of his family without too great a risk of shock... Or a prodigal son whose taken path has driven pain into his own and others hearts… These stories reveal much about the human condition.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

Fast auf Reichweite folgte der Schwarze hinter ihm. Rorie und ich blieben stehen, denn hier vermochten Menschen nichts mehr. Das war Gottes Ratschluss, der sich hier vor unseren Augen vollzog. Schneller konnte das Ende nicht kommen. An dieser steilen Küste waren sie mit einem Sprung in der Tiefe.

First published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is perhaps the most famous example of the gothic horror novella. Gabriel John Utterson, a sombre London lawyer, becomes concerned for the safety and sanity of his friend and client Dr. Henry Jekyll, after the doctor begins associating with an unseemly young man named Edward Hyde. Following a spate of crimes, including blackmail and murder, and with all fingers pointing at Hyde, the lawyer sets out to free his friend from the dreadful influence of his new acquaintance. Not everything, however, is as it seems.

The Toll House, standing alone by the wayside under nodding pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing a straw; a glimpse of the Chinese cook in the back parts; and Mr. Hoddy in the bar, gravely alert and serviceable, and equally anxious to lend or borrow books; dozed all day in the dusty sunshine, more than half asleep. There were no neighbours, except the Hansons up the hill.

There is quite a large race or class of people in America, for whom we scarcely seem to have a parallel in England. Of pure white blood, they are unknown or unrecognizable in towns; inhabit the fringe of settlements and the deep, quiet places of the country; rebellious to all labour, and pettily thievish, like the English gipsies; rustically ignorant, but with a touch of wood-lore and the dexterity of the savage. Whence they came is a moot point.

A change in the colour of the light usually called me in the morning. By a certain hour, the long, vertical chinks in our western gable, where the boards had shrunk and separated, flashed suddenly into my eyes as stripes of dazzling blue, at once so dark and splendid that I used to marvel how the qualities could be combined. At an earlier hour, the heavens in that quarter were still quietly coloured, but the shoulder of the mountain which shuts in the canyon already glowed with sunlight in a wonderful compound of gold and rose and green; and this too would kindle, although more mildly and with rainbow tints, the fissures of our crazy gable.

In our rule at Silverado, there was a melancholy interregnum. The queen and the crown prince with one accord fell sick; and, as I was sick to begin with, our lone position on Mount Saint Helena was no longer tenable, and we had to hurry back to Calistoga and a cottage on the green. By that time we had begun to realize the difficulties of our position. We had found what an amount of labour it cost to support life in our red canyon; and it was the dearest desire of our hearts to get a China-boy to go along with us when we returned.

Ein Einzelhändler wird in seinem Geschäft von dem Mann Markheim ermordet. Bei der Durchsuchung der Geschäftsräume auf Wertgegenstände läuft in dessen Gehirn ein Film aus Verfolgungsparanoia und Angst ertappt zu werden ab, der von einem bedenklich labilen psychischen Zustand irgendwo zwischen Panikattacken und akustischen Halluzinationen begleitet wird. Plötzlich erscheint eine Gestalt, die nicht nur seinen Namen kennt, sondern ihm überdies anbietet, das Versteck des Geldes des ermordeten Händlers zu verraten, mit welchem er sich, Markheim, dann seelenruhig in die Nacht verabschieden könnte.

Die gottesfürchtige Puritanergesellschaft eines kleines Dorfes staunt nicht schlecht als sich ihr neuer Pastor als ein Mann erweist, dem die 1000-2000 Buchseiten konzentrierter Wahrheit, die Bibel, anscheinend nicht genügen. Nicht nur, dass er sich anmaßt andere Bücher zu lesen, er stellt sogar eine lupenreine Sünderin, Janet, als Hausangestellte ein.

"Olalla" is a short story by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Christmas 1885 issue of The Court and Society Review, then re-published in 1887 as part of the collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set in Spain during the Peninsular War. The story is based on a dream that Stevenson had and in his 1888 essay "A Chapter on Dreams", he describes the difficulties he had in fitting his vision into a narrative framework.

"Die krumme Janet" (engl. "Thrawn Janet") ist eine Kurzgeschichte des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson aus dem Jahr 1881, die 1887 in der Sammlung "Die tollen Männer und andere Geschichten" (engl. "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables") bei Chatto & Windus erschien. Der Autor hat die kleine Gespenstergeschichte während eines Aufenthaltes im schottischen Hochland verfasst. Kritiker nennen den Text "seit je als eins seiner Meisterstücke".

La vie du jeune Jim Hawkins bascule le jour où un marin ivrogne et balafré s'installe dans l'auberge tenue par ses parents. Qui est réellement celui que l'on surnomme le "capitaine" ? Pourquoi se cache-t-il ? Une nuit, des pirates attaquent l'auberge. Jim n'a que le temps de fuir, emportant avec lui le secret du vieux forban : la carte d'une île abritant un fabuleux trésor... Le chef-d'œuvre incontesté d'un maître de l'aventure.

Chi non ha mai sentito parlare del dottor Jekyll e del suo alter ego, il signor Hyde? Uno dei classici della narrativa mondiale che ha ispirato innumerevoli autori e autrici che lo hanno succeduto. Londra vittoriana, cupa e coperta dai vapori e dalle esalazioni industriali, con i suoi vicoli acciottolati, le sue carrozze, i lumini a olio e le sue figure misteriose, le sue ombre pericolose - un'estetica che deve gran parte della propria fama narrativa proprio a questo romanzo.

A timeless book of beautiful children's poetry, with a new forward about why it's beneficial for children to learn poetry.

Markheim ist ein Dieb. Und ein Mörder – denn er ersticht auf denkbar gewissenlose Art den alten Trödler, den er in dessen Geschäft aufgesucht hatte. Doch während seines Beutezuges im Laden erscheint plötzlich ein Besucher, der merkwürdig viele Details aus Markheims Leben zu wissen scheint. Wer ist dieser seltsame Fremde, der mit seiner jovialen, unerschrockenen Art Markheim zusehends aus der Fassung bringt? Stevensons Geschichte ist teils Krimi, teils psychologische Studie – und äußerst spannend bis zum Schluss.

Die tollen Männer – das ist eine Gesteinsformation an der Küste einer unwirtlichen schottischen Insel, die eine tödliche Gefahr für vorüberfahrende Schiffe darstellt. Eines Tages liegt ein Segelboot zerborsten am Strand – und die eher ärmliche Behausung des Onkels des Erzählers ist auf einmal vollgestopft mit allerhand wertvollen Gegenständen. Woher diese kommen, ist klar – aber wer liegt in dem frischen Grab nahe beim Wrack? Hat sich der Onkel eines kapitalen Verbrechens schuldig gemacht?

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Die Regentrude" (Storm), "Der Stern über dem Walde" (Zweig), "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts" (Eichendorff), "Die Begegnung" (de Maupassant), "Die Apothekerin" (Tschechow), "Die Tatsachen im Falle Waldemar" (Poe), "Der Großinquisitor" (Dostojevski), "Der Lohn der Liebe" (Boccaccio), "Die Meuterei auf der Bounty" (Verne), "Das Flaschenteufelchen" (Stevenson).