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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.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a single map could open the door to fortune, betrayal, and the darkest secrets of the sea? In *Treasure Island*, Robert Louis Stevenson creates the definitive pirate adventure: a swift, atmospheric tale of buried gold, dangerous men, hidden...

Enjoy two seafaring adventures by a beloved classic adventure writer in Kidnapped and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Count Dracula. Frankenstein's creature. Mr. Hyde. The Headless Horseman. Four figures that helped define horror. More than 31 hours of classic horror and Gothic fiction come together in Horror Stories Collection: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Together, these four works helped shape the vampire story, the monster tale, psychological horror, and the American ghost story.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.

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.

The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of. ‘I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’ Orphaned as a...

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....