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The sBOOKs for Robert Louis Stevenson is a 15 book collection of the author's works and comprises the following: A Child's Garden of Verses Across the Plains An Inland Voyage Catriona _ a sequel to Kidnapped Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Essays of Travel Fables Kidnapped _ The Adventures of David Balfour New Poems The Black Arrow The Merry Men The Waif Woman The Wrecker The Wrong Box Treasure Island A Child's Garden of Verses Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse. Catriona _ a sequel to Kidnapped This sequel to R.L. Stevenson's Kidnapped takes David Balfour further into intrigue and danger as he seeks to solve the Appin murder and absolve himself and his friend, Alan Breck. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde How thin is the line between good and evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him to occasionally 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 Jekyll?? control puts all of London in grave peril. The Black Arrow The Black Arrow is an exciting adventure story full of intrigue, suspense, hair_breadth escapes, and desperate fights. It also contains an unusual love story: the heroine first appears disguised as a boy, and the hero, conditioned to be indifferent or hostile to women, comes grudgingly to admire and then to love her. The Black Arrow offers valuable insights into history and rates among the best novels available about the fifteenth_century English civil conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. Treasure Island The narrator of this timeless adventure story is the lad, Jim Hawkins, whose mother keeps the Admiral...
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