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Author
Language
English
Description
"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...
Author
Language
English
Description
Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr. Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men-including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll-are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collects nine of Stevenson's best-known tales of horror, including The Body-Snatcher."
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thomas Reed's debut novel, Seeking Hyde, recounts the fascinating history of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic horror story, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is the tale of a young author defying his father's wishes by becoming a spinner of romantic yarns. It is the tale of his American wife, ten years older than he, driving her husband hard to write one more great novel before his chronic lung disease carries him away. It is the tale of Stevenson...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (98 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel retelling of the classic novel, young Jim Mousekins discovers a map to buried treasure and finds himself on the high seas and treking through tropical jungles, all while evading dangerous pirates.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters and life, this book imagines the author as a child with dreams of becoming a writer. As he and his father visit one of the many lighthouses along the Scottish coast that were built by their family, young Louis begins composing a story in his head--one with storms, shipwrecks, and pirates--that will one day be published as Treasure Island."--
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Their Uncle Dan is still missing and Carter and Isabelle are starting to worry, especially after they receive a threatening call from the computer hacker--and he challenges them to match wits with him in Treasure Island.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic retelling of a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, a young medical student in nineteenth century Edinburgh accepts corpses for dissection that were stolen from fresh graves--until one day he recognizes the corpse as a friend who was murdered.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As the 19th century draws to an end, two bookaneers are caught up in a colonial war on Samoa as they compete to steal Robert Louis Stevenson's last manuscript and make a fortune before a new international treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever.