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B. J. Harrison Reads Kidnapped
David Balfour is a young Scottish man whose parents have recently died. The seventeen-year-old orphan decides that the time has come for him to seek his fortune. Right before …
B. J. Harrison Reads Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde, and Other Stories
Henry Jekyll is an idealistic young scientist whose main goal it is to unlock the secrets of the human soul. He creates many different potions and chemical mixtures in his lab, but …
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named …
The body snatcher
The short story The Body Snatcher was first published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra", December 1884. The story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the …
The bottle imp
"The Bottle Imp" (1891) is a short story first published in the New York Herald, 1891. The story is about Keawe, a working class native of Hawaii, who buys a strange bottle from a …
B. J. Harrison Reads Olalla
A nameless Scottish soldier is recovering from his wounds in a Spanish hospital. He takes a temporary residence with a local family. Felipe and Olalla are two siblings living with …
B. J. Harrison Reads Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents’ inn, near Bristol. After Billy Bones, an old sea captain, mysteriously dies at the inn, Hawkins unlocks his sea chest and finds …
B. J. Harrison Reads The Master of Ballantrae
Ballantrae and Henry are two brothers and Scottish noblemen, whose family is torn apart during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Ballantrae is an unscrupulous and bold man, who joins …
A humble remonstrance
In "A Humble Remonstrance" (1884), Stevenson analyzes different types of fiction. Stevenson answers Henry James's claim in "The Art of Fiction" (1884) that the novel competes with …
Kidnapped
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May …
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
When a brilliant doctor's experiment goes wrong, a dangerous pursuit of separating good and evil follows... Tucked away in the dark and murky streets of London, a lawyer finds …
The beach of Falesá
"The Beach of Falesá" is a short story, first published in the Illustrated London News in 1892. The story is told in the first person by John Wiltshire, a British copra trader on …