Treasure Island (Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 1/3/2013
EAN 9781108059473, ISBN10: 1108059473
Paperback, 306 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2 cm
Language: English
This classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) was first published as a serial between 1881 and 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks, where it received little attention, and then in the form of this book in 1883, which secured its everlasting fame. Telling the story of the young Jim Hawkins' search for the buried treasure of Captain Flint, it had a profound impact on how pirates were perceived in the popular imagination, immortalising treasure maps marked with an 'X', exotic locations, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders. Vividly drawn, the character of Long John Silver remains one of the most compelling antagonists in all of children's literature. The work of a masterful storyteller at the height of his powers, this coming-of-age adventure has been adapted for film and television countless times, and continues to delight readers of all ages.
To the hesitating purchaser
Part I. The Old Buccaneer
1. The old sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
2. Black Dog appears and disappears
3. The black spot
4. The sea chest
5. The last of the blind man
6. The captain's papers
Part II. The Sea Cook
7. I go to Bristol
8. At the sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
9. Powder and arms
10. The voyage
11. What I heard in the apple barrel
12. Council of war
Part III. My Shore Adventure
13. How my shore adventure began
14. The first blow
15. The man of the island
Part IV. The Stockade
16. Narrative continued by the doctor
how the ship was abandoned
17. Narrative continued by the doctor
the jolly boat's last trip
18. Narrative continued by the doctor
end of the first day's fighting
19. Narrative resumed by Jim Hawkins
the garrison in the stockade
20. Silver's embassy
21. The attack
Part V. My Sea Adventure
22. How my sea adventure began
23. The ebb-tide runs
24. The cruise of the coracle
25. I strike the Jolly Roger
26. Israel Hands
27. 'Pieces of eight'
Part VI. Captain Silver
28. In the enemy's camp
29. The black spot again
30. On parole
31. The treasure hunt
Flint's pointer
32. The treasure hunt
the voice among the trees
33. The fall of a chieftain
34. And last.