Robert Louis Stevenson
1) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots.Kidnapped is set around...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
" '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...
4) The moon
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pictures of a father and child out in the moonlight illustrate Stevenson's poem from A child's garden of verses.
6) Father Damien: an open letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu, from Robert Louis Stevenson
Author
Publisher
Cobble Hill Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Physical Desc
56 p. port. 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family's boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they meet a man who is eager to help them find the treasure: John, a sailor who knows all...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger"--
London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life-- and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll--was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry's expulsion from the London Medical School. Whispers...
11) Treasure Island
Author
Publisher
Campfire
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
84 p. : chiefly col. ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells in graphic novel format Stevenson's story of how Jim Hawkins and his innkeeper mother find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune while going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books of Northern New York
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
40 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story in which John Utterson, a lawyer and friend of the scientist Dr. Jekyll, uncovers a horrifying secret after deciding to investigate the hidden life of the brutal Mr. Hyde.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
20025, c1996
Edition
Kermit's 50th anniversary ed.; widescreen or standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Jim Hawkins inherits a map to a treasure and ends up involved with pirates as he goes to seek his fortune.
14) Treasure planet
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (1.66:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...