Wrecker

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819922902
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally; the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and influence of France about the islands of the cannibal group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill. The clouds hung low and black on the surrounding amphitheatre of mountains; rain had fallen earlier in the day, real tropic rain, a waterspout for violence; and the green and gloomy brow of the mountain was still seamed with many silver threads of torrent.

Table of contents

• THE WRECKER
• PROLOGUE.
• THE YARN.
• CHAPTER II. ROUSSILLON WINE.
• CHAPTER III. TO INTRODUCE MR. PINKERTON.
• CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH I EXPERIENCE EXTREMES OF FORTUNE.
• CHAPTER V. IN WHICH I AM DOWN ON MY LUCK IN PARIS.
• CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH I GO WEST.
• CHAPTER VII. IRONS IN THE FIRE.
• CHAPTER VIII. FACES ON THE CITY FRONT.
• CHAPTER IX. THE WRECK OF THE “FLYING SCUD.”
• CHAPTER X. IN WHICH THE CREW VANISH.
• CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH JIM AND I TAKE DIFFERENT WAYS.
• CHAPTER XII. THE “NORAH CREINA.”
• CHAPTER XIII. THE ISLAND AND THE WRECK.
• CHAPTER XIV. THE CABIN OF THE “FLYING SCUD.”
• CHAPTER XV. THE CARGO OF THE “FLYING SCUD.”
• CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH I TURN SMUGGLER, AND THE CAPTAIN CASUIST
• CHAPTER XVII. LIGHT FROM THE MAN OF WAR.
• CHAPTER XVIII. CROSS-QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS.
• CHAPTER XIX. TRAVELS WITH A SHYSTER.
• CHAPTER XX. STALLBRIDGE-LE-CARTHEW.
• CHAPTER XXI. FACE TO FACE.
• CHAPTER XXII. THE REMITTANCE MAN.
• CHAPTER XXIII. THE BUDGET OF THE “CURRENCY LASS.”
• CHAPTER XXIV. A HARD BARGAIN.
• CHAPTER XXV. A BAD BARGAIN.
• EPILOGUE:
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