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The ebb tide

It is Tahiti in the 1890's and three men, an American sea captain, an English gentleman and a cockney thief, are 'on the beach'. Dispossessed and destitute, the 'trio' agree to sail a smallpox-infected ship loaded with champagne to Sydney, Australia, plotting to steal the cargo, scupper the vessel, and head for the 'Dangerous Archipelago'. Predictably, the thieves fall out. They lose their course and are driven towards an uncharted island which flies the red ensign. The owner of the island, also an English gentleman, has amassed a fortune in pearls. He is both a stern disciplinarian and a religious megalomaniac. As the protagonists in this 'quartette' begin to play out their parts, the plot moves to its dramatic, but ambiguous, conclusion. Stevenson's tale of exploitation in the South Seas recreates both the period and the place through a brilliant exploration of the moral corruption of colonisation.

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  • "Ebbtide"@en
  • "Works"
  • "Ebb-Tide"@it
  • "Weir of Hermiston"@en

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  • "Un navire de guerre français appareillait, à destination de la patrie : il se trouvait à mi-distance du port, tout fourmillant d'activité."
  • "Ein Abenteuerroman - fesselnd wie "Die Schatzinsel" Herrick, Huish und Davis, drei zerrüttete westliche Existenzen, leben als Strandpenner in Papeete, Tahiti. Ihr erbärmliches Einerlei endet, als Davis, vormals Kapitän, ein pockenverseuchtes Schiff nach Sydney bringen soll. Der Laderaum ist voller Champagner - die drei Abenteurer wittern ihre Chance: den werden sie auf eigene Rechnung verhökern. Doch rasch folgt die Ernüchterung. Die Ladung enthält mehr Wasser- als Schaumweinflaschen, der Proviant reicht nicht. Da kommt ein unbekanntes Eiland in Sicht, auf dem der Engländer Attwater mit seinen einheimischen Helfern nach Perlen fischt. Schnell heckt das teuflische Trio einen neuen Plan aus. Mit seinen packenden Beschreibungen der idyllischen Inselwelt und schillernden Figuren entfaltet Stevenson eine ungebrochene erzählerische Kraft. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), geboren in Edinburgh, wollte zunächst Ingenieur werden wie sein Vater, musste diesen Plan jedoch aufgeben, weil er schon früh an einem Lungenleiden erkrankte. Er studierte stattdessen Jura und arbeitete anschliessend für verschiedene Zeitschriften. Seinen ersten grossen literarischen Erfolg feierte er 1883 mit seiner Abenteuergeschichte "Die Schatzinsel", weitere mit unheimlichen Geschichten in der Nachfolge E. A. Poes. Seine Einkünfte erlaubten dem gebürtigen Schotten lebenslanges Reisen auf der Suche nach einem Klima, das bekömmlicher war als das heimische. Er fand es auf Samoa, wo er im Alter von 44 Jahren starb."
  • "It is Tahiti in the 1890's and three men, an American sea captain, an English gentleman and a cockney thief, are 'on the beach'. Dispossessed and destitute, the 'trio' agree to sail a smallpox-infected ship loaded with champagne to Sydney, Australia, plotting to steal the cargo, scupper the vessel, and head for the 'Dangerous Archipelago'. Predictably, the thieves fall out. They lose their course and are driven towards an uncharted island which flies the red ensign. The owner of the island, also an English gentleman, has amassed a fortune in pearls. He is both a stern disciplinarian and a religious megalomaniac. As the protagonists in this 'quartette' begin to play out their parts, the plot moves to its dramatic, but ambiguous, conclusion. Stevenson's tale of exploitation in the South Seas recreates both the period and the place through a brilliant exploration of the moral corruption of colonisation."@en
  • "La Resaca, past life work published in Robert L. Stevenson, will have the opportunity to leave an English Tahiti, manning the Farallone, a plague ship who has left the white crew, bound for Sydney with a cargo of champagne, but ... Peru not far away and the champagne is a temptation too strong."
  • "Best known for rip-roaring adventure tales such as Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson penned the novella The Ebb-Tide in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Regarded by critics as a sharp rebuke of British imperialism, the plot revolves around three transients who board a ship that they think is carrying a large quantity of champagne, only to find that their attempted heist has backfired in the worst way imaginable."@en
  • "Best known for rip-roaring adventure tales such as Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson penned the novella The Ebb-Tide in collaboration with his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Regarded by critics as a sharp rebuke of British imperialism, the plot revolves around three transients who board a ship that they think is carrying a large quantity of champagne, only to find that their attempted heist has backfired in the worst way imaginable."

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  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Libros electronicos"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Sea stories"
  • "Sea stories"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Le creux de la vague un trio et un quatuor"
  • "Le reflux : roman"
  • "The ebb tide"@en
  • "Le reflux"
  • "The Ebb-tide"@en
  • "Strandingsgods : En Trio og en Kvartet"@da
  • "The Ebb-tide"
  • "Die Ebbe : ein Trio und ein Quartett : Roman"
  • "Le reflux : Roman"
  • "The Ebb-Tide"@en
  • "The Ebb-Tide"
  • "Le Reflux : roman"
  • "Ebb-tide"
  • "Strandingsgods / Stevenson : en Trio og en Kvartet"@da
  • "Bajamar : un trío y un cuarteto"@es
  • "Die Ebbe Roman"
  • "Die Ebbe : Roman"
  • "Le Creux de la vague : un trio et un quatuor"
  • "The ebb-tide"@en
  • "The ebb-tide"
  • "Le Reflux ["The Ebb-tide"]"
  • "La Resaca"
  • "Riflusso della marea"
  • "Strandingsgods"@da
  • "Le creux de la vague : un trio et un quatuor"
  • "La resaca"@es
  • "La resaca"
  • "Le Reflux"
  • "Ebb-Tide"
  • "Il riflusso della marea"@it

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