Robert Louis Stevenson
10 livros
- Catriona EnglishYou get David Balfour older, more thoughtful, and still tangled in the aftermath of the Appin murder, with Alan Breck bringing his sharp-edged loyalty along for the ride. It’s slower and more talkative than Kidnapped, but the Edinburgh streets, courtroom maneuvering, and wary romance with Catriona have a lovely, lived-in richness.
- Kidnapped EnglishYou get David Balfour’s wary coming-of-age alongside Alan Breck Stewart, a dazzling, exasperating Jacobite whose courage is matched by his vanity. The flight through the Highlands is brisk and beautifully observed, though the old-fashioned dialect and political detail take a little patience.
- La isla del tesoro EspañolEl joven Jim Hawkins encuentra un mapa del tesoro en el baúl de un pirata muerto y acaba en un barco tripulado por bucaneros a las órdenes de John Silver el Largo, que es amable, listo y mentiroso. Avanza rápido, y Silver es la razón por la que los adultos lo releen.
- Poetry EnglishA Child's Garden of Verses is here, children's poems that survive adulthood, alongside Underwoods and the travel lyrics, including the Requiem carved on his grave. Light-footed verse from a man often writing while ill; the ease is the art.
- Prince Otto EnglishIf you come expecting Treasure Island, skip it; this is Stevenson playing at courtly comedy, all polished talk and marriage trouble in a toy German principality. But watching Otto wander his own kingdom incognito, hearing exactly what his subjects think of him, has a wry sting that lingers.
- The Black Arrow EnglishIf you liked Treasure Island's pace, this gives you the same headlong energy in the Wars of the Roses: outlaw arrows in the greenwood, a treacherous guardian, and a girl in disguise young Dick is slow to figure out. The mock-medieval dialogue takes some warming to.
- The Master of Ballantrae EnglishYou get a dark, beautifully skewed adventure where the charming James Durrie keeps slipping beyond everyone’s grasp, while his moral, tormented brother Henry tries to live with the wreckage. The shifting narrators and haunted atmosphere make it stranger and more psychologically sharp than a straightforward swashbuckler.
- You can read it in an evening, and it's stranger than its reputation suggests. You follow Utterson, a dry London lawyer, piecing things together through fog and locked doors, and the dread builds slowly.
- Travel Essays não ficção EnglishYou get Stevenson at his most companionable here, grumbling cheerfully through rain, bad beds, and the stubbornness of his donkey Modestine while noticing every landscape and passing stranger. The travel is often less important than his voice, so you’ll enjoy it if you like wandering prose with wit, digression, and a little discomfort.
- Treasure Island EnglishYou think you know pirates until Long John Silver charms you the way he charms Jim, and then you catch yourself rooting for him anyway. It moves fast, reads easy, and that apple barrel scene still tightens your chest on a fifth read.