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Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда (сборник)

«Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда» – классика «литературы ужасов», произведение, популярность которого со временем лишь возрастает. Небольшая повесть о викторианском ученом, поставившем над собой дерзкий и опасный эксперимент и тем самым выпустившем на волю из глубин подсознания свое темное «я» – зловещего негодяя и убийцу мистера Хайда, – по-прежнему будоражит умы и сердца, не оставляя равнодушным ни одного читателя. В этот сборник также вошли другие повести и рассказы автора:...

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Странная история доктора Джекиля и мистера Хайда

«Адвокат мистер Утерсон казался суровым, его лицо никогда не освещалось улыбкой; говорил он холодно, кратко, скупясь на слова и нередко подыскивая выражения. Чувств своих Утерсон не любил показывать. Он был высокий, худощавый, угрюмый, человек, но все-таки до известной степени привлекательный. Во время дружеских пирушек, в особенности же, когда вино приходилось по вкусу Утерсону, в его глазах мелькало что-то мягкое, человечное, что-то, никогда не проскальзывающее в его речах, но проявлявшееся не...

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894), a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist, was influential to the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and J. M. Barrie. His most famous works include «Treasure Island» and «The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde». Originally intending to study engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Stevenson expended more energy dodging lectures than attending them. He shifted his studies to law, passing the bar but never actually practicing the...

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The Black Arrow

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The Black Arrow

Set in England during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses, this swashbuckling historical novel by the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped tells the story of young Dick Shelton. Betrayed by his treacherous and brutal guardian, Sir Daniel Brackley, Dick seeks the help of John Amend-All, leader of the mysterious fellowship of the Black Arrow—and Brackley's sworn enemy. Pitted against fierce fighters, a treacherous priest, and Sir Daniel,...

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The Body Snatcher and Other Tales

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The Body Snatcher and Other Tales

Renowned as the author of such popular adventure stories as Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote gripping tales of terror and the supernatural. Stevenson's considerable gifts as a teller of tales shine brightly in this choice collection of three of his best short stories. The Gothic tale of «The Body Snatcher» concerns a young medical student's dealings with grave robbers who provide corpses to dissect and study — a practice that takes on...

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The Body Snatcher and Other Tales

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The Body Snatcher and Other Tales

"The Body Snatcher and Other Tales" is a collection of three ghoulish tales by Robert Louis Stevenson. In the first story, «The Body Snatcher», we find Fettes and Wolfe Macfarlane engaged in the dubious business of stealing corpses for a famous unnamed professor of anatomy. In the second story, «The Bottle Imp», we learn of a magic bottle that contains a wish-granting imp. The only catch is that the bottle must be sold at a loss or its owner's soul will burn for eternity in Hell. In...

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The Dynamiter

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The Dynamiter

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The Master of Ballantrae

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The Master of Ballantrae

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The Master of Ballantrae

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The Master of Ballantrae

This daring tale of revenge and exotic intrigue is demonstrative of Stevenson's broad range and unique genius. «The Master of Ballantrae», first published in 1889, follows the conflict between two Scottish brothers of noble origins during the tumultuous Jacobite Risings of 1745. Greed and envy threaten to tear the brothers apart as a race for the family inheritance intensifies. James Durie, the protagonist and Master of Ballantrae, is as charming as he is evil. It is his relationship with...

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The Master of Ballantrae

Set in 18th-century Scotland, this brooding historical romance unfolds amid the Jacobite Rebellion. A struggle between good and evil begins in the old Scottish castle of Durrisdeer — the ancestral home of the Durie clan — where James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, persists in his lifelong rivalry with his younger brother as well as his relentless quest for the family fortune. From Durrisdeer, the fast-paced adventure shifts to sea voyages and encounters with pirates,...

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The Merry Men

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The Merry Men

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The Merry Men

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The Merry Men

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as 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. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called «split...

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.'After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between...

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a classic tale of the struggle between good and evil. The good Dr. Jekyll is transformed into the evil Mr. Hyde with the drinking of a magic potion. The story is one of the duality that exists within man. In this classic tale of horror, Stevenson suggests that while man is essentially good within us all lurks an evil, violent alter ego that has the potential to destroy us and everything around us.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Olymp Classics )

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" can be seen as a story about the concept of good and evil that exists in all of us or a critique on the hypocrisy and double standards of the society and also an interesting study into the mind of the author and into the theories of dualism. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerizing thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established...

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