Treasure Island - Роберт Льюис Стивенсон

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when Stevenson took a long journey by sea and rail from Europe to California. He chose to travel second class, which was ‘roughing it’ in those days. By the time he arrived at his destination he was at deaths door. It seems that he never fully recovered from these self-imposed hardships. Stevenson was, surprisingly, viewed as something of a failure by his family. He had been expected to become a successful engineer, but rejected convention and expectation in pursuit of his writing. Although he was successful as a writer in his own lifetime his naturally Bohemian and unorthodox behaviour made him feel marginalized by Victorian society. This could explain why he felt more at home in far flung places, where he was free from the parameters of Victorian etiquette and expectation. Before he started to travel, he found his escape in visiting places of ill repute and iniquity where the underclass would not judge him and where he met more interesting people on the fringes of society.

       To

       S. L. O.,

       An American gentleman, in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend,

       THE AUTHOR

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       CHAPTER 11 What I Heard in the Apple Barrel

       CHAPTER 12 Council of War

       PART THREE My Shore Adventure

       CHAPTER 13 How I Began my Shore Adventure

       CHAPTER 14 The First Blow

       CHAPTER 15 The Man of the Island

       PART FOUR The Stockade

       CHAPTER 16 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned

       CHAPTER 17 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-Boat’s Last Trip

       CHAPTER 18 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting

       CHAPTER 19 Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade

       CHAPTER 20 Silver’s Embassy

       CHAPTER 21 The Attack

       PART FIVE My Sea Adventure

       CHAPTER 22 How I Began my Sea Adventure

       CHAPTER 23 The Ebb-tide Runs

       CHAPTER 24 The Cruise of the Coracle

       CHAPTER 25 I Strike the Jolly Roger

       CHAPTER 26 Israel Hands

       CHAPTER 27 ‘Pieces of Eight’

       PART SIX Captain Silver

       CHAPTER 28 In the Enemy’s Camp

       CHAPTER 29 The Black Spot Again

       CHAPTER 30 On Parole

       CHAPTER 31 The Treasure Hunt – Flint’s Pointer

       CHAPTER 32 The Treasure Hunt – The Voice Among the Trees

       CHAPTER 33 The Fall of a Chieftain

       CHAPTER 34 And Last

       CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

PART ONE The Old Buccaneer

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