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Peg-legged pirates, colorful parrots, and plundered riches―they’re all here in Robert Louis Stevenson’s original seafaring adventure.

When young Jim Hawkins decides to follow a map to buried treasure, he must befriend or outsmart memorable characters such as pirate Long John Silver, captain Billy Bones, and island man Ben Gunn. Mutinous plans, mysterious deaths, and a tangle of double crosses keep Jim guessing all the way to the prize.

Inspired by real-life seafarers, Stevenson captures the adventurous spirit of the times and the imagination of readers, young and old alike.

Revised edition: Previously published as Treasure Island, this edition of Treasure Island (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

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Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) traveled early and often, leaving behind his family business and an education in engineering and law to pursue a life of adventure. His first books included An Inland Voyage, which contained tales of his travels―by canoe―from Antwerp to northern France.

Marriage took Stevenson even farther from home, as he and his wife Fanny settled in California, where he wrote short stories such as “The Treasure of Franchard” and “Markheim,” featuring themes that would appear in later novels.

Stevenson’s health declined in the 1880s, but his work flourished. He wrote Treasure Island while bedridden with a likely case of tuberculosis, and he followed up with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both were wildly popular when they were published in the 1880s, and they remain so today.

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Chris Pannerz
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
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Treasure Island (AmazonClassics Edition)" is a timeless adventure classic that continues to captivate readers of all ages. This edition by AmazonClassics offers a fresh take on Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved tale of pirates, buried treasure, and high-seas escapades. With its gripping narrative, rich characters, and vivid imagery,
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Gary Hoggatt
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute classic, and simply THE pirate story
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2011
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Treasure Island, first published in book form in 1883, is THE pirate story. Many of the things we think of today as being trademarks of pirates (buried treasure, treasure maps, peg legs, parrots, desert islands) come more from Stevenson's tale than from history. But this book isn't about history, it's about pirates, adventure, and coming of age, and it delivers marvelously on all of those promises.

The narrator, young Jim Hawkins, lives and works at an inn owned by his parents. One day, a mysterious seaman takes lodging there with an equally mysterious chest. After some time, other sailors arrive looking for the first seaman. Out of this, from the seaman's chest Jim manages to find a treasure map leading to the untold riches of a now-dead but still famous pirate named Captain Flint. Jim takes the map to a couple of country gentlemen, who decide to charter a ship to look for the treasure and take Jim along as cabin boy.

Unfortunately for Jim and our heroes, but fortunately for the plot, they have a hard time finding sailors, and they turn to their new ship's cook, the one-legged Long John Silver, for "help" in rounding out the crew. Silver, as is hardly a spoiler, is actually a former pirate and crews the ship accordingly, having heard what they're after and eager to find those riches for himself.

The excitement mounts as Jim goes on several daring adventures to save himself and the faithful party, and Silver struggles to keep control of his mutineers, all the while treasure is calling. Jim shows a great deal of growth, taking charge of several perilous situations and demonstrating considerable bravery he never possessed when dealing with the mysterious sailor in his parents' inn. Silver, meanwhile, is a savvy character who's self-interest and ability to play both sides against the middle knows no bounds. If you're looking for a master of duplicity and double-cross, Silver could give Jack Sparrow lessons.

Stevenson's writing is fantastic. The colorful language of the pirates, and the refined speech of the gentlemen leading the faithful party, are a joy to experience. The drama steadily rises, despite the fact the book's story is well known and I've read it several times before. It's certainly no accident that this book has had such a powerful effect on an entire genre of fiction even 130 years later.

I've also listened to the book as narrated by Ralph Cosham, who I've enjoyed greatly and listened to on several other stories. If you're considering which audio version to listen to, you can't go wrong with Cosham's.

Treasure Island is about as easily available as a book can be, as every library will have it on hand, it's on Wikisource for free, Amazon has it for Kindle for free or in paperback for $2, and I've even seen it at Target for $1. It's also only 300 quick pages. Seriously, there is no excuse for not reading this book.
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Kenya Starflight
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining swashbuckling adventure, and one of the cornerstones of a genre
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019
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It was high time I read the original version of this classic -- I'd read an illustrated condensed version as a child, and seen two film adaptations that took considerable liberties with the material ("Muppet Treasure Island" and "Treasure Planet"), but still hadn't read the original. And having now done so, I can definitely see why it's a classic. Its prose may come across as a little stilted nowadays, but it's still a highly enjoyable tale with some delightfully complex characters, and it helped forge the path for many of the pirate stories we know and love today, including "Pirates of the Caribbean" itself.

Jim Hawkins has lived a fairly ordinary life as the son of innkeepers... and so when a pirate by the name of Billy Bones drops dead in the family's inn, leaving behind a treasure map and attracting a swarm of unsavory characters to said inn, it changes his life forever. Seeing the map as the call to adventure, he, along with a trusted doctor friend and a local squire, hires a ship and crew to sail to the island where the treasure is supposedly buried. But Bones left a cryptic message before his death -- "beware the one-legged man" -- and when the one-legged ship's cook proves to be treacherous, Jim and his friends find themselves not just hunting for treasure, but struggling to escape a bloodthirsty pirate crew with the greatest treasure of all... their lives.

Given that this book was written and published in the 1800s, it uses language and phrasing that seems awkward and stilted by today's standards, and may entail a trip to the dictionary a time or two in order to make sense of some of the terms used. Despite this, it's still a rollicking adventure story, one that's still entertaining over a hundred years later. And if some of it seems a little trope-heavy by today's standards... well, that's because it's one of the early pirate novels that helped build some of those tropes and themes, so what seems old and tired today was still fresh and new back then.

One thing that impressed me about "Treasure Island" was its surprisingly complex characters. Most of the main characters have believable flaws and strengths, multi-faceted personalities, and manage to be likable even if they can be jerks or act like idiots at times. Long John Silver, the villain, is a surprisingly complex villain, greedy and bloodthirsty but with a surprising amount of compassion and nobility as well. For people who think "Treasure Planet" softened this villain up too much... they were surprisingly true to the character in the book, believe it or not.

A highly enjoyable and entertaining novel, "Treasure Island" is work a little work at getting through some of the antiquated language. If you're only familiar with this story via an adaptation, or if you're a "Pirates" fan, you owe it to yourself to check this classic out.
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Katja H. Labonté
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2021
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5 stars & 5/10 hearts. I’ve wanted to read this classic for years but always was a little wary because it was about pirates. I needn’t have worried.

In the first place, MAJOR RESPECT to Stevenson for the way he made his pirates perfectly real and yet kept the book so clean. As far as I can recall, there is BARELY ANY LANGUAGE in this, and only very mild things like “deuce to pay,” which I’m not exactly sure is language. Furthermore, all the bad deeds and things of the pirates is very veiled and just hinted at or briefly mentioned, and yet he contrives to make them quite terrifying.

Second, although the violence does exist, its quite toned down. Murder and fighting is quite prevalent, but honestly the only really disturbing thing is when a man is accidentally trampled by a horse. All the rest was really laid-back and so matter-of-fact that I found it completely cool. I wasn’t even very anxious for anyone, just really intensely curious how things would turn out.

Third, the characters were very real and alive. There was Jim, who was a sympathetic figure, although sometimes he seemed to get out of things much too easily. There was the Doctor, who was really quite wise and humorous and brave (although he could also be rather harsh!). The Squire, although sometimes he was an idiot, was at least a brave, good man and a great companion. The Captain was hands-down my favourite, good and brave and humorous and smart (although why on earth wasn’t he a good shot?). Jim’s mother was nice, although she bugged me at times.

And then there were the pirates. Long John was VERY hard to make your mind up about. He was such a great guy, and such a terrible villain. I couldn’t help being glad at the ending though. ;) Israel Hands was really hateful. George and Dick and the other guys were mostly humorous additions.

And finally, the plot. Highly unrealistic, and yet completely intriguing; fast-paced, and yet relaxing; serious, and yet very humorous. I also loved the themes of courage, loyalty, and doing right.

Overall, it was a fun, light, quick, enjoyable read! I think boys would probably like it a lot.

A Favourite Quote: “As for the scheme I had in my head, it was not a bad one in itself...; a thing quite worth doing, as I still believe. But as I was certain I should not be allowed to leave the enclosure, my only plan was to take French leave and slip out when nobody was watching, and that was so bad a way of doing it as made the thing itself wrong.”
A Favourite Humorous Quote: <I>“Well, George, how goes it? You’re a pretty colour, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside down. Did you take that medicine? Did he take that medicine, men?”
“Aye, aye, sir, he took it, sure enough,” returned Morgan.
“Because, you see, since I am mutineers’ doctor, or prison doctor as I prefer to call it,” says Doctor Livesey in his pleasantest way, “I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows.”
The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence. “Dick don’t feel well, sir,” said one.
“Don’t he?” replied the doctor. “Well, step up here, Dick, and let me see your tongue. No, I should be surprised if he did! The man’s tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever.”
“Ah, there,” said Morgan, “that comed of sp’iling Bibles.”
“That comes—as you call it—of being arrant asses,” retorted the doctor, “and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. I think it most probable—though of course it’s only an opinion—that you’ll all have … to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems. Camp in a bog, would you? Silver, I’m surprised at you. You’re less of a fool than many, take you all round; but you don’t appear to me to have the rudiments of a notion of the rules of health.”
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5.0 out of 5 stars alles gut
Reviewed in Germany on March 21, 2024
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great wee book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2024
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Great story, I’ve decided to go through all the classics that I’ve never read before and this one was certainly a good one! And at a good price too!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected and tempting
Reviewed in India on October 21, 2023
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The story is awesome...the character and story sync so well....it's gripping thrilling exciting and unexpected at times ...you might not know when you'll encounter what... marvelous book a must read for all age group ....it's very tempting u can't put it down once picked....it is adventurous and a lovely read
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprato per la scuola
Reviewed in Italy on May 26, 2023
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