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In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.

Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.

Lady Guinevere Mallory has been married four times in twelve years, and each of her husbands has died mysteriously.

Utterson and Enfield are worried about their friend, Dr. Jekyll, who has been spending his time on a mysterious research project.

When young Jim Hawkins picks a treasure map off a dead boarder, he’s drawn into a rollicking and dangerous journey filled with buccaneers and buried treasure — but, sadly, no Muppets.

Three timeless stories that will whisk you into exotic lands and unforgettable adventures.

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox.

Stevenson's account of his extended walk, in 1878, through uplands and mountains in south-western France amply fulfils this declaration of intent.

A lawyer in Victorian London tries to understand the nature of the strange relationship between his physician friend and the cruel and violent man he seems to protect.

Lady Olivia Granville is a lovely, headstrong scholar. Anthony Caxton is a pirate. However, he, too is keenly intelligent and independent.

In order to inherit a fortune, Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, must rescue a "fallen woman." So when a lady of the night attempts to pick his pocket, he makes a daring proposal.

Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables.

Comely Alexandra Douglas is in London, reeling from news of her father's death--and of her disinheritance.