Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
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"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson is an adventure novel published in 1883. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest, he sets sail with a crew to find Captain Flint's legendary buried gold. But aboard the ship Hispaniola lurks danger: the charming one-legged cook Long John Silver leads a band of mutinous pirates with their own deadly plans. On a remote island filled with treachery and violence, Jim must navigate shifting alliances and mortal threats to survive this perilous quest for fortune.
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About the author
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist and travel writer who abandoned the family trade of lighthouse engineering, then the law, for writing, and spent his life moving in search of a climate his lungs could bear. He wrote the first draft of Jekyll and Hyde in a few days after dreaming it, burned it when his wife objected to it, and wrote it again. He settled finally in Samoa, took the islanders' side against the colonial administration, and died there at forty-four. His books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.