Fiction · 1883
Treasure Island
A map, a sea chest, a one-legged cook, and a boy who overhears what he should not: Jim Hawkins tells how he sailed with the Hispaniola to an island where treasure was buried, and what the crew turned out to be. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the story for a boys’ magazine in 1881–82 and published it as a book in 1883.
It is the book from which most of the language and furniture of pirate stories descends — the Black Spot, the parrot, “fifteen men on the dead man’s chest” — and, in Long John Silver, one of the great ambiguous figures of English fiction.
Bibliomancer presents the complete text in its six parts. Louis Rhead’s illustrations for the 1915 Harper edition are not reproduced.
Contents
- Dedication
- Part One — The Old Buccaneer
- I — The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
- II — Black Dog Appears and Disappears
- III — The Black Spot
- IV — The Sea-chest
- V — The Last of the Blind Man
- VI — The Captain’s Papers
- Part Two — The Sea-cook
- VII — I Go to Bristol
- VIII — At the Sign of the Spy-glass
- IX — Powder and Arms
- X — The Voyage
- XI — What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
- XII — Council of War
- Part Three — My Shore Adventure
- XIII — How I Began My Shore Adventure
- XIV — The First Blow
- XV — The Man of the Island
- Part Four — The Stockade
- XVI — Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
- XVII — Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
- XVIII — Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
- XIX — Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
- XX — Silver’s Embassy
- XXI — The Attack
- Part Five — My Sea Adventure
- XXII — How I Began My Sea Adventure
- XXIII — The Ebb-tide Runs
- XXIV — The Cruise of the Coracle
- XXV — I Strike the Jolly Roger
- XXVI — Israel Hands
- XXVII — “Pieces of Eight”
- Part Six — Captain Silver
- XXVIII — In the Enemy’s Camp
- XXIX — The Black Spot Again
- XXX — On Parole
- XXXI — The Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer
- XXXII — The Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
- XXXIII — The Fall of a Chieftain
- XXXIV — And Last
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About the author
1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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