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Treasure Island
English BooksWhale Edition by Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic adventure novel of pirates, maps, treasure, courage, danger, and betrayal.
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island tells the story of Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and a perilous search for buried treasure. Stevenson’s novel shaped the modern image of pirates and remains one of the most exciting adventure stories in English literature. This BooksWhale edition presents the English original text for online reading, EPUB, and PDF.
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Robert Louis Stevenson died in 1894, and Treasure Island was first published in 1883. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English original edition.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, the author.
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If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of today:
--So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie!
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- 01Full text
- 02To the Hesitating Purchaser
- 03Part One: The Old Buccaneer
- 04I. The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
- 05II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
- 06III. The Black Spot
- 07IV. The Sea-chest
- 08V. The Last of the Blind Man
- 09VI. The Captain’s Papers
- 10Part Two: The Sea-cook
- 11VII. I Go to Bristol
- 12VIII. At the Sign of the Spy-glass
- 13IX. Powder and Arms
- 14X. The Voyage
- 15XI. What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
- 16XII. Council of War
- 17Part Three: My Shore Adventure
- 18XIII. How I Began My Shore Adventure
- 19XIV. The First Blow
- 20XV. The Man of the Island
- 21Part Four: The Stockade
- 22XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
- 23XXVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
- 24XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
- 25XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
- 26XX. Silver’s Embassy
- 27XXI. The Attack
- 28Part Five: My Sea Adventure
- 29XXII. How I Began My Sea Adventure
- 30XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
- 31XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
- 32XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
- 33XXVI. Israel Hands
- 34XXVII. “Pieces of Eight”
- 35Part Six: Captain Silver
- 36XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
- 37XXIX. The Black Spot Again
- 38XXX. On Parole
- 39XXXI. The Treasure-hunt--Flint’s Pointer
- 40XXXII. The Treasure-hunt--The Voice Among the Trees
- 41XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
- 42XXXIV. And Last
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