A vintage book in good condition: dust jacket has wear and a newspaper clipping has been glued to the front; cover has light wear; pages are age-toned; no writing; all pages intact; pages are fragile. Please look closely at the photos for more details.
Inspired by real events, Kidnappedis a swashbuckling adventure of bizarre encounters, political assassination and wild carousing with Robert Louis Stevenson’s unique counterpoint of low morals and high comedy threaded throughout. Headstrong David Balfour, orphaned at seventeen, sets out from the Scottish Lowlands to seek his fortune in Edinburgh and finds himself abducted on the orders of his wealthy Uncle Ebenezer. He’s carried away to sea to be sold into slavery in the Carolinas, where he secures a timely alliance with Jacobite adventurer Alan Breck, and together they make an epic escape across the western Highlands.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeis an 1886Gothicnovella. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend,Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydeis one of the most famous pieces ofEnglish literature and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre. The novella has also had a sizeable impact on popular culture, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" being used in vernacular to refer to people with an outwardly good but sometimes shockingly evil nature.
