"It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone." Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” Are we humans really composed of two different personalities housed within the same brain, within the same person? The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The novella is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.

<처음 만나는 원서 001. 지킬앤하이드> 인생을 두고 몇 번은 만나는 세기의 고전들 평생 마주 치는 고전 명작들이 있습니다. 신문에서 회자되기도 하고 영화로 새로 태어나기도 하고 수많은 미디어에 서 인용되기도 합니다. 그럴 때마다 한번은 읽어봐야지 하면서도 고전 명작들의 원작들을 찾아 읽기란 마음처럼 쉬운 일은 아닙니다. 바빠서라고들 하죠. 그렇지만 SF 영화로도 탈바꿈해 나오고 뮤지컬로도 오랫동안 사랑 받고 있는 이 작품, 지킬 앤 하이드를 그냥 지나치기엔 원조를 모르고 변조된 작품들만 수없이 보는 것입니다. 원작에는 어떤 것이 들어있을까. 궁금하 시다면 당신이 처음 만나는 원작, 이 책을 들어보세요.

The story begins when David, a 16-year-old boy, finds his uncle according to his father's will. The uncle tries to kill his nephew David and take over the property, but fails, and eventually David is kidnapped by a slave ship called the Coverant. After a rough adventure, such as making a friend named Alan on the ship and fighting against others, David returns home safely and inherits his father's legacy.