Download or read book The Bottle Imp written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bottle Imp of Bright House written by Tom Llewellyn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School vacation for a year. Eternal happiness. You could wish for anything-- but if it came at someone else's expense, would you still do it? When a mysterious millionaire sells thirteen-year-old Gabe a bottle containing a wish-granting imp, it comes with a warning: any time Gabe makes a wish, someone else, somewhere, is going to lose something. Maybe something big. That means each of Gabe's wishes should be a difficult ethical dilemma--but as he scores a Ferrari, a hot tub, and all the pizza and sub sandwiches a kid could want, he's certain a guilty conscience is worth it . . . isn't it? The Bottle Imp of Bright House is pithy, dark, and very, very funny, exploring the lengths people will go to for happiness-- and the surprising ways small choices can swiftly spiral out of control. Gris Grimly's bold and eerie artwork brings Gabe's misadventures to life. Inspired by a Robert Louis Stevenson novella, this clever story is full of references to his body of work-- and lots of laughs, too.
Download or read book Olalla written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Olalla" is a short story by the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the Christmas 1885 issue of The Court and Society Review, then re-published in 1887 as part of the collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. It is set in Spain during the Peninsular War. A Scottish soldier recovering from his injuries in Spain goes to stay with a local family, where he eventually meets the beautiful Olalla and falls in love with her. But things won't be smooth sailing for either of them...
Download or read book The Bottle Imp written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story focuses on a well-known theme: the danger of making a pact with the Devil. In this story, a Hawaiian man called Keawe purchases a bottle in which resides a tiny imp. The imp is capable of granting any wish, but the cost of owning such a powerful object is very high, as Keawe finds, to his cost. Stevenson has given this age-old theme a fascinating twist, making this a compelling and disturbing tale.
Download or read book Island Nights Entertainments written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Island is an Island written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. 14 illustrations.
Download or read book The Devil in the Bottle written by Carles Roman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of XIX century, Keawe, a young sailor from Hawaii, visited the continent of America and the city of San Francisco city for the first. There, a mysterious old man sold him a bottle with a devil inside. The devil was then Keawe's to command and it would make his every wish come true. There were some rules to follow if he did not want to lose his soul to burn forever in hell. Mystery, adventure, a deeply romantic story and psychological terror from Stevenson's tale, 'The Bottle Imp.' Enjoy this great classical and dramatic story told with beautiful drawings.
Download or read book Ship in a Bottle written by Andrew Prahin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valiant mouse sets sail in her ship in a bottle to seek a better life in this gentle allegory about refugees and immigration. All Mouse wants to do is eat gingersnaps, lie in the sun, and enjoy her ship in a bottle. All Cat wants to do is eat Mouse. This is a problem. So one day, Mouse sets off in her ship in a bottle in search of a new home. But the great big world is a scary place for one small mouse. As she sails downriver, she faces grabby seagulls, selfish rabbits, and stormy waters before finally finding refuge in a park on the shores of an enormous city, where she is welcomed by friends of all shapes and sizes. Readers will cheer Mouse's quiet perseverance on her epic journey as she seeks a tiny spot to call her own.
Download or read book Fantastic Tales written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six fantasy tales from the 19th century, tracing the genre from its roots in German romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James. The editor, who prefaces each story, analyzes the resurgence of the fantastic in our day.
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...
Download or read book Thrawn Janet written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small Scottish village the Reverends housekeeper is rumoured to be involved with witchcraft. As strange and terrifying events unfold, the villagers' darkest fears come to life. Stevenson's masterful use of the Scots dialect and atmospheric setting enhances the eerie and unsettling mood of this gothic narrative. »Thrawn Janet« is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally published in 1881. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850–1894] was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is among the 30 most translated authors of all time and has been praised by Marcel Proust, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Bertolt Brecht. Treasure Island is his most famous work, along with the gothic sci-fi novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Download or read book Theory of the Gimmick written by Sianne Ngai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention). Focusing on this connection to work, Ngai draws a line from gimmicks to political economy. When we call something a gimmick, we are registering uncertainties about value bound to labor and time—misgivings that indicate broader anxieties about the measurement of wealth in capitalism. With wit and critical precision, Ngai explores the extravagantly impoverished gimmick across a range of examples: the fiction of Thomas Mann, Helen DeWitt, and Henry James; photographs by Torbjørn Rødland; the video art of Stan Douglas; the theoretical writings of Stanley Cavell and Theodor Adorno. Despite its status as cheap and compromised, the gimmick emerges as a surprisingly powerful tool in this formidable contribution to aesthetic theory.
Download or read book The Uncommon Prayer Book Fantasy and Horror Classics written by M. R. James and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century and he is seen as the founder of the 'antiquarian ghost story'. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions with a brand new introductory biography of the author.
Download or read book The Bottle Imp written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keawe buys a magic bottle which brings him all that he desires but which he must sell before he dies in order to avoid spending eternity in hell.
Download or read book Start with English Readers Grade 6 The Bottle Imp written by D. H. Howe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1984-11-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bottle Imp written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told in graphic novel format. In the murky streets of Victorian London, a vicious killer is on the prowl. The killer is Mr. Hyde. And why does Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, try to protect him? The work also contains information about Robert Louis Stevenson's life and the film versions of the work.
