A mysterious seaman hides at a country inn: cutthroats raid a sleepy English village; suddenly, young Jim Hawkins becomes the owner of a map leading to a lost tropical island and a fortune in stolen gold. Three adventurers-Jim, Squire Trelawney, and Dr. Liveseyset out to find the treasure.
But they trust the one man they should most fear,Long John Silver. Charming, brave, ruthless, murderous, Silver fills the squire’s ship with pirates. And on the desolate, fever-infested island, the quest for gold becomes a deadly war of hide and seek. Desperate’defenders against merciless killers battling over a cursed treasure won with blood, buried with blood,sought with blood. Incredible wealth that Jim and his friends can only claim...
If they survive!
Like so many of the best known English writers of adventure stories, Robert Louis Stevenson went to history for his subject matter. Though fine critics like John Rowe Townsend speak of his literary predecessors, saying "If there had been no Robinson Crusoe, there could surely have been no Treasure Island," it is even truer to say that if there had not been a grand and bloody history of pirating in England and America, Treasure Island would never have been written. Stories of pirates, buccaneers, and even. privateers (sailors under Letters of Mark from their king with official permission to raid ships belonging to enemies of their country) were already highly popular. Since 1724, when a small octavo volume by Captain Charles Johnson appeared entitled General Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, "piratania" was a subject often in the British presses.
The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Foreword
PART ONE
The Old Buccaneer
1. THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW .
2. BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS
3. THE BLACK SPOT
4. THE SEA-CHEST
5. THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN
6. THE CAPTAIN’S PAPERS
PART TWO
The Sea-cook
7. 1 GO TO BRISTOL
8. AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS
9. POWDER AND ARMS
10. THE VOYAGE
11. WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL
12. COUNCIL OF WAS
PART THREE
My Shore Adventure
13. HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN
14. THE FIRST BLOW
15. THE MAN oF THE ISLAND
PART FOUR
The Stockade
16. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED
17. NARRATIVE CONINUED BY THE DOCTOR: THE JOLLY-BOAT’S LAST TRIP
18. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: END OF THE FIRST DAY’S FIGHTING
19. NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE
20. SILVER’S EMBASSY
21. THE ATTACK
PART FIVE
My Sea Adventure
22. HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN
23. THE EBB-TiDE RUNS
24. THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE
25. I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER
26. ISRAEL HANDS
27. "PratEs OF EIGHT"
PART SIX
Captain Silver
28. IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP
29. THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN
30. ON PAROLE
31. THE TREASURE-HUNT.-FLINT’S POINTER
32. THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES
33. THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN
34. AND LAST
Afterword
