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Treasure Island offers everything an adventurer could want: a mysterious old sailor seeking refuge in a remote inn, a one-legged pirate with a parrot in search of the sailor, a treasure map that falls into the hands of a young boy and the dangerous journey across the sea to an island in search of the treasure, only to find that the crew has been infiltrated by a group of mutinous cronies and their one-legged leader. It taps into – and to some extent borrows from – a rich tradition of American novelists, including works by James Fennimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Washington Irving. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is an adventure story par excellence and while it was originally aimed at a young (and mainly male) readership, it has captured the hearts and minds of many an older reader as well. And no wonder – its iconic characters, like the brave but often rash teenage hero Jim Hawkins and the deeply immoral but often surprisingly likable pirate (and murderer) Long John Silver, the story’s characters draw you in and make you care about their fate.

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Publié par	GetAbstract AG
Date de parution	09 juin 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798887271033
Langue	English

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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson•First edition: London 1883

Adventure story
Victorian literature

Take-Aways Treasure Island is a prime example of a late 19th-century adventure novel. The young hero, Jim Hawkins, comes into the possession of a treasure map and sets off with his companions to find Captain Flint’s treasure. Little do they know that a number of their crew have joined them to steal the treasure from under their noses and kill them. Treasure Island was Robert Louis Stevenson’s first novel. It was an instant success and established him as a successful author. Stevenson modeled John Silver on a friend – stripped of all the friend’s good characteristics. Treasure Island follows in the footsteps of the American adventure novel; Stevenson found inspiration in the works of writers such as Mark Twain and James Fenimore Cooper. Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis most of his life and finally settled in Samoa, where he believed the climate would be good for his health. By the mid-19th century, with piracy pretty much under control, the pirate had become a literary romantic antihero. The story appeared initially in serialized form under the title The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys in the periodical Young Folks but failed to get much attention. In 2014, Treasure Island was turned into a stage play, with girls and women cast as the main characters. “And I was going to sea myself; to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain, and pig-tailed singing seamen; to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasures!”

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Going on an Adventure
Treasure Island offers everything an adventurer could want: a mysterious old sailor seeking refuge in a remote inn, a one-legged pirate with a parrot in search of the sailor, a treasure map that falls into the hands of a young boy and the dangerous journey across the sea to an island in search of the treasure, only to find that the crew has been infiltrated by a group of mutinous cronies and their one-legged leader. It taps into – and to some extent borrows from – a rich tradition of American novelists, including works by James Fennimore Cooper, Mark Twain and Washington Irving. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is an adventure story par excellence and while it was originally aimed at a young (and mainly male) readership, it has captured the hearts and minds of many an older reader as well. And no wonder – its iconic characters, like the brave but often rash teenage hero Jim Hawkins and the deeply immoral but often surprisingly likable pirate (and murderer) Long John Silver, the story’s characters draw you in and make you care about their fate.

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The Old Seaman
An old seaman, Billy Bones , who calls himself “captain,” arrives with his sea chest at the Admiral Benbow, a remote inn along the English coast. He decides to stop there indefinitely and soon starts making a nuisance of himself. He terrorizes the other guests with drinking songs and gruesome tales of the sea, in particular when he has drunk too much rum – which happens regularly.
“Suddenly [the captain] began to pip up his eternal song: ‘Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!’”
But despite his boisterousness, he is nervous. He spends his days watching the coast and enlists young Jim Hawkins , the owner’s son, to keep a lookout for a one-legged seafarer, for which he pays Jim a silver fourpenny every month.
The Past Catches Up
One day, a man called Black Dog appears. He asks Jim whether his mate Bill is at the inn. Jim tells him that a man who calls himself captain is a guest there but that he is currently out. Black Dog settles down to wait. When the captain returns and sees Black Dog, he has “the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one.