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1883 · 311 pages
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When young Jim Hawkins finds a map among a dead sailor's effects, he sets sail aboard the Hispaniola in search of buried gold — and falls into the orbit of the most beguiling villain in English fiction, the one-legged sea cook Long John Silver.
First serialised in 1883, Treasure Island fixed the iconography of pirate lore for all time: the black spot, the parrot on the shoulder, the treasure map with its fatal X. Beneath the adventure runs a sharp study of loyalty, greed, and the seductions of a charming rogue.
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A real page from this editionPart One · The Old Buccaneer
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 soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.
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