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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Young Jim recalls the old sea captain who came to his family’s inn.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate2,708 characters · ≈ 4 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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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…

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About the book

Treasure Island is an adventure and historical novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in the 18th century, it tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold" and is considered a coming-of-age story. The library currently holds the opening section, in which Jim describes an old seaman arriving at the "Admiral Benbow" inn; the book has notably shaped popular images of pirates, from treasure maps marked with an "X" to one-legged seamen with parrots.

About the author

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, born and educated in Edinburgh; he later settled in Samoa, where he died. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped, and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses.

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