num_pages: 296
description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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 his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow - a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:
language: English
title: Treasure Island
titlecomplete: Treasure Island
characters: Ben Gunn, Abraham Gray, Doctor Livesey, Squire John Trelawney, Jim Hawkins, Captain Alexander Smollet, Long John Silver, Billy Bones, Israel Hands
genres: Literature, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Pirates
ratings_count: 474646
places: Atlantic Ocean, Bristol, England, Skeleton Island
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Prêmio Jabuti
category: Adaptação
publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society