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Back in the days when young men and women read adventure tales there was none better in the adolescent genre that the imimitable Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94). Stevenson was a Scottish Presbyterian who was trained in law but forsook it for the sake of fiction. Among his classics are "The Black Arrow"; "Kidnapped" and his great novella
"Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde." Stevenson was a sufferer of TB and died at the too young age of 44.
Treasure Island was published in 1883. It began as a story Stevenson narrated to his wife's son Lloyd Osborne.
It tells the thrilling tale of buried treasure on Treasure Island. The island is fictional but Stevenson seems to have located it near the California coast. He lived in California for a time. Jim Hawkins is the teenage narrator. When the old seadog Billy Bones comes to the Admiral Benbow Inn he carries with him a map of Treasure Island. Bones had been a sailor on a sea expedition led by the pirate Captain Flnt; he had just received a black spot sign of death from the blind sailor Pew.
Hawkins joins forces with Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and later Captain Smollett aboard the Hispanolia in search of the buried treasure. On the ship there are 19 mutineers led by the one legged Long John Silver and his famous parrot Captain Flint. After a series of adventures and much violence the treasure of 700,000 pounds is discovered and Hawkins returns home a rich young lad.
Stevenson is good in melodramatic action and in characterization influenced by his mentor Sir Walter Scott. Clearly drawn characters such as Silver, Ben Gunn, and the evil Israel Hands are colorfully drawn. The author is adept at word painting excelling in lush descriptive passages of the sea journey and Treasure Island. He has borrowed the parrot from Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" featuring young Jim Hawkins is not a deep work but is purely and simply an adventure tale to be read and reread as long as the art of writing and the practice of reading are part of civilized life.
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also 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 perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.
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Climb aboard for the swashbuckling adventure of a lifetime. Treasure Islandhas enthralled (and caused slight seasickness) for decades. The names Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins are destined to remain pieces of folklore for as long as children want to read Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous book. With it's dastardly plot and motley crew of rogues and villains, it seems unlikely that children will ever say no to this timeless classic. --Naomi Gesinger
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