Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson4.5 Stars144 Pages15 men on a dead man's chest...Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rumJim Hawkins is the young son of a poor innkeeper when he meets his first pirate, Billy Bones, who has holed up at the Admiral Benbow, trying to avoid his death at the hands of his fe...
I chose this book because Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of my personal favorites. It took a little while for me to get into this book, but once the story got going for me, I really enjoyed the characters. I find Long John Silver quite intimidating! The setting is really great. If you en...
Pure, adventurous delight. Stevenson's writing is direct and straight-forward. Writers like Dicken's who could effectively make use of the baroque in their narratives are rare, and Stevenson doesn't bother to try. 'Treasure Island' reads as clear as any modern YA novel without neglecting rich charac...
The ancestor of all children's adventure stories, Treasure Island is an action-packed tale of blood-thirsty pirates and buried treasure. It begins when Billy Bones, an anti-social old sailor, comes to stay at The Admiral Benbow, the inn run by Jim Hawkins' parents. It becomes clear that Billy Bones ...
As far as classics go this is one of the easier and quicker to read. Overall I found it to be okay, of course it's one of the more popular classic stories so i already knew a great deal of it before reading it which might be the cause for my impartiality.
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