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Treasure Island, classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, serialized in the magazine Young Folks from October 1881 to January 1882 under the title The Sea-Cook; or, Treasure Island and published in book form in 1883. Although not the first book about pirates, Treasure Island is considered by many to be the best.
The main character, young Jim Hawkins, helps his parents run the Admiral Benbow, an inn near Bristol, England. One day a desperate-looking ruffian, Billy Bones (“the captain”), appears and takes a room. After being visited by a former mate named Black Dog, Billy suffers a stroke. Later, while drinking rum, he tells Jim that he is a pirate and that he has a treasure map. However, Billy fears that another pirate might mark him with a black spot (a summons or threat). Shortly thereafter, Jim’s ailing father, who is being tended to by Dr. Livesey, dies. A blind beggar, later revealed to be the pirate Pew, subsequently arrives and puts something in Bones’s hand. After Pew leaves, Billy has a fatal stroke.
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Jim and his mother open Billy’s sea chest, taking the money owed to them as well as a packet, before fleeing. A group of pirates led by Pew descends on the inn, but they are soon scared off by the sound of approaching horses; Pew is trampled to death. Believing that the pirates were searching for the packet, Jim seeks out Dr. Livesey, who is with Squire Trelawny. The packet is revealed to contain a treasure map, and the three decide to mount an expedition to Skeleton Island to find the hidden riches. However, they are fooled into hiring some of Billy’s former shipmates, including the leader of the pirates, Long John Silver.
While a preeminent adventure tale, Treasure Island is also an enduring coming-of-age story as Jim both navigates life-and-death situations and encounters moral lessons. It introduced numerous concepts that have become widely associated with pirates: one-legged seamen, black-sailed ships, treasure maps marked with an “X,” the frightening black spot,...
Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of " buccaneers and buried gold ". It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1883
It was written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson under the pseudonym “Captain George North.” The novel follows teenage protagonist Jim Hawkins, who finds himself in possession of a map that leads to buried treasure. Sounds familiar, right?
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