Robert Louis Stevenson

'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...' When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting adventure stories in literature. The discovery of a treasure map sets Jim and his companions in search of buried gold, and they are soon on board the Hispaniola with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged sea cook known as Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the lure of Captain Flint's treasure grows ever stronger, Jim's courage and wits are tested to the full. Stevenson reinvented the genre with Treasure Island, a boys' story that appeals as much to adults as to children, and whose moral ambiguities turned the Victorian universe on its head. This edition celebrates the ultimate book of pirates and high adventure, and also examines how its tale of greed, murder, treachery, and evil has acquired its classic status. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Y feu screfys "Enys Tresour" gans Robert Louis Stevenson i'n bledhynyow 1880 hag 1881. Dalethys veu in Braemar in Scotlond, le may whrug y das gwil gweres dhodho gans y brevyans y honen a v wnans in gorholyon. Gorfednys veu an novel p n esa Stevenson in Davos rag an sec nd treveth in gw v an vledhen 1881-1882. "Enys Tresour", neb a dheuth in mes p n o an auctour udnek bledhen warn ugans bloodh, o y kensa romans hir, ha p n veu an lyver dyllys avell lyver, Stevenson a rec vas dredho rag an kensa pr s sowena in lagasow an bobel. An whedhel-ma a dhalathas apperya in mis Hedra 1881 i'n lyver termyn Sowsnek gelwys Young Folks. I'n termyn-na "Cog an Mor, b Enys Tresour" o an t tel, saw p n veu dyllys an novel avell lyver in mis M 1883, an hanow o "Enys Tresour" yn udnyk, ha'n hanow-na a gemeras y le in mesk t tlys a lyvrow classyk liesgweyth cotha. Y f dh gwelys i'n lyver-ma delinyansow bryntyn Louis Rhead, a veu dyllys rag an kensa pr s i'n vledhen 1915. Nicholas Williams a drailyas an lyver-ma dhe Gernowek. Ev a drailyas "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" gans Lewis Carroll dhe Gernowek ha dhe Wodhalek Wordhen kefr s. -- It was in 1880 and 1881 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. It was finished in the course of his second visit to Davos in the winter of 1881-1882. "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 in October 1881, that this story began to appear as a serial in an English magazine called "Young Folks". The title then was "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island", but when published in book form in May 1883, the name was simply "Treasure Island", a name which has taken its place among the titles of far older classics. This edition contains the superb illustrations of Louis Rhead, which he published in 1915. The Cornish translation is by Nicholas Williams, who also translated Louis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" into Cornish and into Irish.

Why, said a child listening to Stevenson 's poems, he did all the things that we do * * * * These famous poems of childhood owe much of their luminous understanding of children 's play and imagination to the limited childhood spent by Stevenson. Kept i