Robert Louis Stevenson

Young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map, joins a ship's crew that includes the duplicitous Long John Silver, and sails to an island of gold and treachery. Written initially to entertain a child, Treasure Island became the defining template of the adventure novel: morally complex pirates, shifting loyalties, and the ambiguity of courage and greed in close quarters.

The respectable Dr Henry Jekyll develops a formula that separates his good and evil natures into two distinct beings: the refined Jekyll and the brutal Hyde. Written in six days and published in 1886, the novella became one of the most penetrating explorations of the duality of human nature and the illusion of civilized respectability.