Treasure Island · 1883
A young innkeeper's son comes into a map that marks buried pirate gold and joins a sea voyage to find it. Among the hired crew sail men who are not what they seem, and the boy has to grow up fast. The book that fixed the shape of pirate adventure for everyone after it.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde · 1886
A respectable London doctor is somehow bound to a cold, violent stranger who comes and goes from his house, and a lawyer friend sets out to understand the tie between them. A short, unsettling tale about the two natures a single person can hold. It gave the language a byword for the divided self.
