Robert Louis Stevenson

Adaptation of the classic story of the good and evil sides of man's nature.

This recording is the second in a new series featuring some of the greatest crime stories ever written. The Perfect Crime is written in the first person: I know I committed the perfect crime. Phoebe Wallowes, a well educated American woman, really irritates him. He also has a genuine terror that she will one day marry him. Something therefore has to be done. Sapper's Thirteen Lead Soldiers has an ingenious plot to murder Conte de Dinard at a secret...

A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "Treasure Island" during which Jim Hawkins gives Squire Tralawney a packet left behind by a sea captain staying at Jim's parents' inn, and which pirates are trying to find.

Six episodes from the 1955 television series, The adventures of Long John Silver, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson.

COMIC STRIP FICTION / GRAPHIC NOVELS (CHILDREN'S / TEENAGE). Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-liked and respected physician. When he calls upon his lawyer, Mr. Utterson, to draw up a new will to include a strange new beneficiary, Mr. Utterson takes it upon himself to investigate the identity of this strange man. But nothing sufficiently prepares him for the truth he will uncover! Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,...

A retelling in graphic novel form of the famous story of the alter egos, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Host LeVar Burton introduces the book My shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, a poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow. Also discussed are light and shadow, shadow plays, and shadows in photography.