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Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Mystery, Thriller and Adventure

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Language
English
First published
1883
Reading time
295 minutes
Chapters
34 chapters

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Young Jim Hawkins helps his mother run a lonely inn on the English coast until an old sailor arrives with a sea chest, a scar and a terrible fear of a one-legged man.

Soon Jim has a treasure map and a place on a ship whose crew cannot all be trusted. Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 adventure gave us much of what we imagine about pirates: buried gold, the black spot and Long John Silver. Read it for pure storytelling, at any age.

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still…

I The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow

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Chapters

34 chapters
  1. I The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow10 min
  2. II Black Dog Appears and Disappears10 min
  3. III The Black Spot10 min
  4. IV The Sea-chest10 min
  5. V The Last of the Blind Man9 min
  6. VI The Captain’s Papers9 min
  7. VII I Go to Bristol8 min
  8. VIII At the Sign of the Spy-glass8 min
  9. IX Powder and Arms8 min
  10. X The Voyage9 min
  11. XI What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel9 min
  12. XII Council of War8 min
  13. XIII How I Began My Shore Adventure8 min
  14. XIV The First Blow9 min
  15. XV The Man of the Island10 min
  16. XVI Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned8 min
  17. XXVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip7 min
  18. XVIII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting7 min
  19. XIX Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade9 min
  20. XX Silver’s Embassy9 min
  21. XXI The Attack9 min
  22. XXII How I Began My Sea Adventure10 min
  23. XXIII The Ebb-tide Runs7 min
  24. XXIV The Cruise of the Coracle9 min
  25. XXV I Strike the Jolly Roger8 min
  26. XXVI Israel Hands13 min
  27. XXVII “Pieces of Eight”10 min
  28. XXVIII In the Enemy’s Camp12 min
  29. XXIX The Black Spot Again10 min
  30. XXX On Parole11 min
  31. XXXI The Treasure-hunt--Flint’s Pointer10 min
  32. XXXII The Treasure-hunt--The Voice Among the Trees9 min
  33. XXXIII The Fall of a Chieftain9 min
  34. XXXIV And Last9 min

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