Oxford Children's Classics: World of Adventure box set by Robert Louis Stevenson
An eye-catching boxed set containing Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Wind in the Willows. Each book has been produced with masses of bonus features and a contemporary new cover to appeal to today's modern readers. The perfect gift for anyone who loves a good story!
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. In 1867 he entered Edinburgh University to study engineering but subsequently switched to law. Stevenson liked to travel and wrote many essays and short stories for magazines about these travels. Treasure Island was published in 1883 and was followed by Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. In the late 1880s Stevenson moved with his family to Samoa and died
there in 1894. Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. Just before his sixth birthday Rudyard and his sister were sent to England to receive their formal education. At the age of sixteen he returned to India and
worked as a journalist on a local newspaper. In 1886 his first book, Departmental Ditties, was published, and during the years that followed he had success with many more books including, in 1889, The Jungle Book. He married in 1891 and settled for a while in the USA, however he then returned to England and from there moved t
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192739827 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192739824 |
| Title | Oxford Children's Classics: World of Adventure box set |
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Series | Oxford Children's Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2014-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 1248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |