Résultats pour "Robert Louis Stevenson" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

Le récit de "L'île au trésor" est fait par le jeune Jim Hawkins qui découvre tout d'abord, dans le coffre d'un vieux pirate décédé, une carte indiquant la cachette d'un fabuleux trésor que la bande du fameux capitaine Flint a enfoui dans une île déserte. Jim parvient alors à faire affréter un navire, l'Hispaniola, pour partir à sa recherche.

In a fog-wreathed London, the respected Dr Jekyll’s experiments on the dual nature of man unleash a brute that feels no moral restraint or remorse. Although excited by this freedom, Jekyll discovers that he is unable to control the power of his vicious alter ego and is faced with shameful discovery or ignominious death.

It is 1751, and 17-year-old David Balfour is all alone in the world. Recently orphaned, he receives a letter instructing him to seek out his sole remaining relative at the House of Shaws. But on meeting his uncle Ebenezer, David soon realises that he is a shifty, miserly man with designs on his inheritance. After an attempt on David's life fails, Ebenezer tricks him into boarding the brig Covenant, where he is knocked unconscious, kidnapped and taken to sea. His fate seems sealed - he is to be transported to a plantation in the Carolinas and sold into slavery.