Treasure Island was first serialised and then published in 1884.
Stevenson had written it for the amusement of his step-son, twelve-year-old Lloyd Osbourne in 1881. It is a tale of pirates, a map, some treasure, a mutiny and a one-legged sea-cook. Treasure Island was originally known as The Sea-Cook. It had appeared as a serial in Young Folks in 1882.
Treasure Island, with its mixture of the prodigious and the human, of surprising coincidences and familiar feelings, has become a classic.
It is a story which we imagine happening to ourselves, and which lets us daydream, turning our ordinary lives into a romantic adventure.
Set in the days of ships and pirates, it creates
life-like images, and we are thrilled to go treasure hunting with young Jim Hawkins to the Treasure Island.
Treasure Island was first serialised and then published in 1884.
Stevenson had written it for the amusement of his step-son, twelve-year-old Lloyd Osbourne in 1881. It is a tale of pirates, a map, some treasure, a mutiny and a one-legged sea-cook. Treasure Island was originally known as The Sea-Cook. It had appeared as a serial in Young Folks in 1882.
Treasure Island, with its mixture of the prodigious and the human, of surprising coincidences and familiar feelings, has become a classic.
It is a story which we imagine happening to ourselves, and which lets us daydream, turning our ordinary lives into a romantic adventure.
Set in the days of ships and pirates, it creates
life-like images, and we are thrilled to go treasure hunting with young Jim Hawkins to the Treasure Island.
