Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Original en 67813 words First published 1883 United Kingdom

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel, the original pirate story from which all the others descend. Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead sailor's sea chest and sails with Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey for the island — aboard a crew that includes Long John Silver, the one-legged ship's cook, the most charming villain in English fiction. Murders, mutiny, the black spot, 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest': every pirate trope you know was invented here, in a book written for a stepson and loved by the world.

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Treasure Island

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