![]() Treasure Island, which appeared when the author was thirty-one, was his first long romance, and it brought to him his first taste of popular success, when the story was published in book form. It was finished in the course of his second visit to Davos in the winter of 1881-1882. ![]() It was in 18 that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, which was begun at Braemar, Scotland, where his father aided him with suggestions from his own seafaring experiences. ![]() Suddenly he-the captain, that is-began to pipe up his eternal song:ĭrink and the devil had done for the rest-Īt first I had supposed “the dead man’s chest” to be that identical big box of his upstairs in the front room, and the thought had been mingled in my nightmares with that of the one-legged seafaring man. I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. If you are in North America, order the hardcover edition, or the paperback edition from !Īlso available in Cornish and in Esperanto. ![]() ISBN 978-1-78201-053-1 (paperback), price: €16.95, £15.95, $18.95.Ĭlick on the book cover on the right to order the hardcover edition from .uk!Ĭlick here to order the paperback edition from .uk! Illustrations by Louis Rhead and Frank E. ![]()
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