Robert Louis Stevenson

Published as a "shilling shocker, " Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr. Jekyll's strange association with "damnable young man" Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's...

"Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. 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...

A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

When a school teacher's married lover cancels their long-planned vacation because his wife has organized a trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park, she decides to follow them accompanied by a donkey.