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Der junge Jim Hawkins findet im Nachlass des Piraten Bill Bones die lange verloren geglaubte Karte zur Schatzinsel. Zusammen mit seinen besten Freunden begibt sich Jim auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, mit dem Ziel, den versteckten Schatz zu finden. Doch in die Crew haben sich auch der beruhmt-beruchtigte Pirat Long John Silver und seine Manner eingeschlichen. Jim braucht einen guten Plan, um die Piraten zu uberlisten und den Schatz bergen zu konnen.show more Nr pagini: 92 pagesFormat: 146 x 211 x...

Als der angesehene Arzt Dr. Jekyll sich zunehmend mit dem mysteriosen Mr. Hyde beschaftigt, werden seine Freunde immer besorgter. Wer ist Hyde und wieso meiden ihn alle, die ihn kennenlernen? Stevensons Schauerroman um das Bosen im Menschen wird hier mit derselben Spannung und Dramatik wie im Original nacherzahlt.show moreISBN: 9783852721521Nr pagini: 102 pagesFormat: 149 x 211 x 7mm | 187gAnul aparitiei: 01 Oct 2009...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis StevensonOne more step, Mr Hands, said I, and Ill blow your brains outIn Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkinss parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirat...

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirates chest in his parents inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confronts mutiny, murder and the charismatic and devious Long John Silver.

Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguins 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California...

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekylls control puts all of London in grave peril.

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonAll human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evilPublished as a shilling shocker, Robert Louis Stevensons dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekylls strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Jim Hawkins lives at an inn with his mother and father. One day an old sailor is killed there. In his bag, Jim finds a map of an island, with red crosses on it. Jims friends, Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey, say it is a treasure map. It shows where pirates have hidden their gold.Jim goes with his friends to find the gold. The squire finds a ship, but some of the sailors that he chooses are pirates. They want the treasure for themselves. They will kill anyone who tries to stop them. Jim finds out...

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the right level from the very beginning.

ISBN: 0195455576Nr pagini: 120 pagesFormat: 130 x 199 x 7mm | 120gAnul aparitiei: 04 Aug 2008

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of th...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.ISBN: 019479170XNr pagini: 96 pagesFormat: 130 x 198 x 5mm | 110gAnul aparitiei: 19 Nov 2011

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.\\''After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson\\''s quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conf...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Fifteen men on the dead man\\''s chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\\''Upon finding a map in his parents\\'' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim\\''s swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure - where his own bravery is put to ...

The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is descri...

The author of dozens of adventure novels and fantastical tales, Robert Louis Stevenson was also an enthusiast of travel, whether wandering on foot through France in the company of a donkey, crossing the plains of North America in a train crammed with emigrants, or cruising under sail with his wife in the waters of the Pacific. A lively curiosity stimulated his observations of distant places and unknown people: and this selection from his travel writings bears the imprint of a generous and plucky...

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightenin...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a writer.Also included in this volume is Stevenson's 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables.The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness; Markheim, the sinister study of...