Treasure Island + The Mysterious Island (2 Unabridged Classics)
Deux chefs-d’œuvre de l’aventure réunis : L’Île au trésor de Stevenson et L’Île mystérieuse de Verne, pour explorer les mystères des mers et des îles perdues.
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality - as seen in Long John Silver - unusual for children's literature now and then. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders.
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson." The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way - by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures...
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Robert Louis Stevenson et Jules Verne, bien que n’ayant jamais collaboré directement, partagent une passion pour l’aventure et l’exploration des limites humaines. Leurs œuvres, souvent considérées comme fondatrices de la littérature populaire, mêlent suspense, imagination et réflexion sur la société. Ce duo posthume offre un voyage unique entre réalisme et fantastique, où la mer et les îles deviennent des personnages à part entière.
Jules Gabriel Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) est un écrivain français, pionnier de la science-fiction et du roman d’aventures scientifiques. Auteur de Vingt mille lieues sous les mers et Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, il a imaginé des technologies et des voyages extraordinaires. Son œuvre, à la fois éducative et divertissante, a inspiré des générations de lecteurs et de scientifiques. Verne allie rigueur documentaire et imagination débridée, faisant de lui un visionnaire de la littérature.