Treasure Island is a classic adventure novel about a young boy, Jim Hawkins, who finds a treasure map and sets sail in search of buried gold. Along the way, he encounters pirates, including the cunning Long John Silver. It is a gripping coming-of-age story that has shaped how we imagine pirates.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated by Louis Rhead TREASURE ISLAND PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer I. The Old Sea-dog at the “Admiral Benbow” II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears III. The Black Spot IV. The Sea-chest V. The Last of the Blind Man VI. The Captain’s Papers PART TWO—The Sea-cook VII. I Go to Bristol VIII. At the Sign of the Spy-glass IX. Powder and Arms X. The Voyage XI. What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
XII. Council of War
PART THREE—My Shore Adventure
XIII. How I Began My Shore Adventure
XIV. The First Blow
XV. The Man of the Island
PART FOUR—The Stockade
XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was
Abandoned
XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s
Fighting
XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the
Stockade
XX. Silver’s Embassy
XXI. The Attack
PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure
XXII. How I Began My Sea Adventure
XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
XXVI. Israel Hands
XXVII. “Pieces of Eight”
PART SIX—Captain Silver
XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
XXIX. The Black Spot Again
XXX. On Parole
XXXI. The Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer
XXXII. The Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain XXXIV. And Last 0021m 0022m
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