Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited with an introduction by John Seelye.
Contributors: Seelye, John D.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Treasure Island (Imaginary place) -- Fiction; Treasure-trove -- Fiction; Pirates -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: 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 lodging under our roof.
Description: "Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Island has also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and (reluctantly) Henry James.

The story has the dreamlike quality of a fairy tale and has worked its way into the collective imagination of more than five generations of readers, gaining the power of myth.".

"Although thoroughly British in setting and characters, Treasure Island, as John Seelye shows, has an American dimension, drawing on the author's experiences living in California, and is in no small debt to Washington Irving's ghost stories and James Fenimore Cooper's tales of adventure. This new Penguin Classics edition also includes Stevenson's own essay about the composition of Treasure Island, written just before his death."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Old Buccaneer; label: 1
title: The Old Sea-Dog at the "Admiral Benbow"; label: 2
title: Black Dog Appears and Disappears; label: 3
title: The Black Spot; label: 4
title: The Sea-Chest; label: 5
title: The Last of the Blind Man; label: 6
title: The Captain's Papers; label: II
title: The Sea Cook; label: 7
title: I Go to Bristol; label: 8
title: At the Sign of the "Spy-glass"; label: 9
title: Powder and Arms; label: 10
title: The Voyage; label: 11
title: What I Heard in the Apple Barrel; label: 12
title: The Council of War; label: III
title: My Shore Adventure; label: 13
title: How My Shore Adventure Began; label: 14
title: The First Blow; label: 15
title: The Man of the Island; label: IV
title: The Stockade; label: 16
title: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned; label: 17
title: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-Boat's Last Trip; label: 18
title: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting; label: 19
title: Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade; label: 20
title: Silver's Embassy; label: 21
title: The Attack; label: V
title: My Sea Adventure; label: 22
title: How My Sea Adventure Began; label: 23
title: The Ebb-Tide Runs; label: 24
title: The Cruise of the Coracle; label: 25
title: I Strike the Jolly Roger; label: 26
title: Israel Hands; label: 27
title: "Pieces of Eight"; label: VI
title: Captain Silver; label: 28
title: In the Enemy's Camp; label: 29
title: The Black Spot Again; label: 30
title: On Parole; label: 31
title: The Treasure Hunt--Flint's Pointer; label: 32
title: The Treasure Hunt--The Voice Among the Trees; label: 33
title: The Fall of a Chieftain; label: 34
title: And Last