Treasure Island 1880
- Fiction, Treasure Island (Imaginary place), Treasure-trove, Pirates
Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders
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Classical in form, effortless, grave and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- First published
- 1910
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Heian International Publishing, Incorporated, IndyPublish.com, Heirloom Library
- Editions
- 1991
- Language
- Spanish, dan, yid, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780721456096
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“Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-- and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up lodging under our roof.”
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.
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