Treasure Island (Paperback)

"Treasure Island" It is written on the last page of the bookAn all-time favorite with the children of all ages, Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold”. Following the sudden death of a mysterious sailor at the Admiral Benbow inn, Jim Hawkins, the hero of the novel, comes across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions and that map sets Hawkins on to an extraordinary voyage. Originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks, the novel was an immediate success with its sensational storyline of shipwreck, heroism, pirates, treachery, mutiny and murder. Traditionally considered as a coming-of-age story, it is widely popular for its superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality unusual for children's literature then and now. Undoubtedly, Treasure Island is a masterpiece in world adventure literature. About the novel, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote "I think Stevenson shows more genius in a page than Sir Walter Scott in a volume"