Die Schatzinsel: Roman
1977
Nearly every pirate story you've ever loved begins here. Stevenson invented the genre's visual vocabulary: treasure maps with red X's, the Jolly Roger, the peg-legged cook with a secret. But what elevates Treasure Island beyond adventure is its moral fog. Long John Silver is no cartoon villain. He's charming, funny, terrifying, and impossible to read. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a dead man's chest and a map to buried gold, he enters a world where every ally might be a betrayer, where the line between good and evil blurs, and where he must grow up faster than he ever imagined. Stevenson's genius is making us complicit in the romance of piracy while never letting us forget its violence. This is the novel that taught generations to dream of distant horizons and hidden treasure. It remains the pure articulation of adventure itself, for readers who want their excitement with teeth.
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“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“We must go on, because we can't turn back.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Dead men don't bite””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“-I am not sure whether he's sane.-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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