Treasure Island (Chump Change Edition)

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Rhead (Illustrator)

Overview

Unabridged version of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson with 32 illustrations by Louis Rhead, offered here for chump change. A must-have collectable, Treasure Island is nonstop action that every other pirate tale must compare itself against.

Stevenson wrote, “It was to be a story for boys; no need of psychology or fine writing… Women were excluded...” And Long John Silver was to have nothing but his strength, his courage, his quickness, and his magnificent geniality.

Up for a daring adventure? Read the heart quickening tale in this unabridged, affordably printed volume that drives the reader to the last page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640320475
Publisher:	Ross Bolton
Publication date:	04/24/2017
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. His father was an engineer, the head of a family firm that had constructed most of Scotland's lighthouses, and the family had a comfortable income. Stevenson was an only child and was often ill; as a result, he was much coddled by both his parents and his long-time nurse. The family took frequent trips to southern Europe to escape the cruel Edinburgh winters, trips that, along with his many illnesses, caused Stevenson to miss much of his formal schooling. He entered Edinburgh University in 1867, intending to become an engineer and enter the family business, but he was a desultory, disengaged student and never took a degree. In 1871, Stevenson switched his study to law, a profession which would leave time for his already-budding literary ambitions, and he managed to pass the bar in 1875.

Illness put an end to his legal career before it had even started, and Stevenson spent the next few years traveling in Europe and writing travel essays and literary criticism. In 1876, Stevenson fell in love with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, a married American woman more than ten years his senior, and returned with her to London, where he published his first fiction, "The Suicide Club." In 1879, Stevenson set sail for America, apparently in response to a telegram from Fanny, who had returned to California in an attempt to reconcile with her husband. Fanny obtained a divorce and the couple married in 1880, eventually returning to Europe, where they lived for the next several years. Stevenson was by this time beset by terrifying lung hemorrhages that would appear without warning and required months of convalescence in a healthy climate. Despite his periodic illnesses and his peripatetic life, Stevenson completed some of his most enduring works during this period: Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

After his father's death and a trip to Edinburgh which he knew would be his last, Stevenson set sail once more for America in 1887 with his wife, mother, and stepson. In 1888, after spending a frigid winter in the Adirondack Mountains, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail from California bound for the South Pacific. The Stevensons spent time in Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Australia, before settling in Samoa, where Stevenson bought a plantation called Vailima. Though he kept up a vigorous publishing schedule, Stevenson never returned to Europe. He died of a sudden brain hemorrhage on December 3, 1894.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PART ONE–THE OLD BUCCANEER 3

1: THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW 3

2: BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS 5

3: THE BLACK SPOT 8

4: THE SEA-CHEST 11

5: THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN 14

6: THE CAPTAIN’S PAPERS 16

PART TWO–THE SEA-COOK 19

7: I GO TO BRISTOL 19

8: AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS 22

9: POWDER AND ARMS 25

10: THE VOYAGE 27

11: WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL 30

12: COUNCIL OF WAR 33

PART THREE–MY SHORE ADVENTURE 36

13: HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN 36

14: THE FIRST BLOW 38

15: THE MAN OF THE ISLAND 41

PART FOUR–THE STOCKADE 44

16: NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED 44

17: NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: THE JOLLY-BOAT’S LAST TRIP 46

18: NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: END OF THE FIRST DAY’S FIGHTING 49

19: NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE 51

20: SILVER’S EMBASSY 54

21: THE ATTACK 56

PART FIVE–MY SEA ADVENTURE 59

22: HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN 59

23: THE EBB-TIDE RUNS 62

24: THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE 64

25: I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER 67

26: ISRAEL HANDS 69

27: “PIECES OF EIGHT” 73

PART SIX–CAPTAIN SILVER 76

28: IN THE ENEMY’S CAMP 76

29: THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN 79

30: ON PAROLE 82

31: THE TREASURE-HUNT–FLINT’S POINTER 85

32: THE TREASURE-HUNT–THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES 89

33: THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN 91

34: AND LAST 94