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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.

Like Scheherazade, Stevenson, the consummate storyteller is at the peak of his craft. Who can resist the charm of the medieval romance in "The Sire de Maletroit's Door", the strangely enigmatic rogue Villon of "A Lodging for the Night", or the sheer delight of "Providence and the Guitar"?

Seasonal Prayers is an audio recording of selected powerful prayers from the Bible, great saints, sacred texts and prophets who used these prayers for hundreds of years to invoke and strengthen their faith and relationships with God. Each prayer is followed by piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Prayers include Family Prayer, Praying for Hope and Comfort, Prayer for Trust in Jesus, Searching for God, Salutation to Life, Psalm 111, Prayer of Gratitude, The Door of Love....

The Door of Love includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano music includes The Seasons, Les Saisons Op. 37a, August: Harvest. Prayer read in English, unabridged, by Josh Verbae. Music recording by Anton Kingsbury.

Family Prayer includes a reading of the eponymous prayer followed by beautiful piano music based on original compositions of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Piano composition includes: "The Seasons", "Les Saisons Op. 37a", "January: At the Fireside". Performed by Anton Kingsbury.

Bei einem spektakulären Experiment spaltet der angesehene Londoner Arzt Henry Jekyll seine Seele in Gut und Böse. Mithilfe eines Tranks kann er sich von nun an jederzeit in sein gewissenloses Alter Ego Mr. Hyde verwandeln. Zunächst empfindet Jekyll die Spaltung als befreiend, doch zusehends verliert er die Kontrolle über den sadistischen Hyde, der zur Gefahr für seinen Ruf und schließlich für sein Leben wird.

Stevenson's brilliantly macabre yet profound story of a man seemingly trapped in evil.

"Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde" est une nouvelle écrite par Robert Louis Stevenson et publiée en janvier 1886. Ce récit est devenu un modèle du genre d'épouvante à ressort psychanalytique. Le Dr Jekyll, gentleman londonien respectable, est envahi par l'idée d'avoir deux personnalités opposées en lui : la première est consciente et honorable, la seconde laisse place à toutes les perversions de son subconscient. Alors qu'il tente de détruire le Mr Hyde qui se trouve en lui, c'est le Dr Jekyll qui va peu à peu disparaître.

This timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson of man's struggle with his dual nature is brought to life in this audiobook edition.

El alma humana oscila entre el bien y el mal. Cuando los experimentos de un altruista medico, el Dr. Jekyll, que busca metodos para eliminar el mal de la humanidad fracasan, encuentra un brebaje que lo transforma en un monstruo, Mr. Hyde, que destila maldad. Esa pocima que logra la milagrosa transformacion y que usa el doctor en sus experimentos, va teniendo cada vez más efecto, de manera que cada vez demora mas en volver a su estado natural.

A charming but ineffective prince takes the road less travelled after a hunt, setting in motion events that result in him losing his wife and his kingdom of Grunewald in under a week. The plot is thick with disreputable characters (even the prince) as well as court intrigue, treachery, and deceit...but in the hands of master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson, these larger-than-life characters are delightful, and the almost-serious events become part of a lighthearted and sweet fairy tale complete with a happy ending.

It was a nightmare from which he was furious to have been woken which triggered Robert Louis Stevenson's most successful and famous work. Having been stirred from what he termed 'a fine bogey tale', Stevenson set about putting his nightmare onto paper. It reputedly took him only three days to write, but the story of a split personality warring with itself between righteousness and immorality is as much a part of modern thought as it became in 1885.

Robert Louis Stevenson's lengthy short story 'The Pavilion on the Links' was considered by Arthur Conan Doyle to be 'the first short story in the world'. This unsettlingly nerve-racking tale is every bit as chilling as its much wider known follower, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and at the time of its publication was every bit as successful. Stevenson makes the choice in the story of having two fairly unpleasant characters for his main protagonists.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson tells a mysterious and thrilling tale through the eyes of the honest and good-natured lawyer, Mr. Utterson. In the will entrusted to Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekyll states that when he dies, all of his money and possessions shall be left to Mr. Hyde. At first Mr. Utterson and his close friend, Mr. Enfield, suspect that the brutish and child-trampling Mr. Hyde is somehow blackmailing the well-known and well liked Dr. Jekyll.

In A Lodging for the Night, a dissolute Parisian student finds himself forced into accepting the favours of a venerable and respected knight on a cold winter's evening in 1456. The ensuing dinner conversation is spellbinding.

Die unsterblich gewordene gespenstische Erzählung von der Doppelexistenz des Dr. Jekyll als Bürger und bösartiges Monster Mr. Hyde.

Meine Begeleiter auf jener denkwürdigen Reise haben mich gebeten, die Geschichte der Schatzinsel von Anfang bis zum Ende nieder zu schreiben...

Fünf Hörbücher mit mehr als 33 Stunden Spieldauer: Oliver Twist, Moby Dick, Lederstrumpf, Onkel Toms Hütte, Die Schatzinsel...

Il dramma del Dottor Jekyll è quello dell'uomo che prova ad esplorare il suo lato oscuro e che, inevitabilmente, ne viene risucchiato...

Der Jugendliche Jim Hawkins findet die vergilbte Karte einer Insel, auf der der Schatz des berüchtigten Piraten Captain Flint vergraben sein soll. Es wird eine Expedition ausgerüstet. Dafür wird auch Hawkins angeheuert, der als Schiffsjunge auf der "Hispaniola" mitreist.