Treasure Island
1883
Treasure Island
1883
Treasure Island invented the pirate. Before Stevenson, buccaneers were historical footnotes; after him, they became the dream of parrot-shouldered rogues, X-marked maps, and the terrible freedom of the sea. Young Jim Hawkins begins as an innkeeper's son sorting through a dead man's pockets and ends as a boy who has watched men die for gold. At the heart of the novel beats an uncomfortable truth: the most compelling figure is the villain. Long John Silver is a one-legged cook who quotes Shakespeare between orders for murder, a man who makes you question which side you're on. This is not a simple tale of good against evil. It is a story about the moment a child realizes the world is more dangerous and more magnificent than he imagined. Treasure Island is for anyone who has ever dreamed of running away to sea.
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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
