Treasure Island: The Original 1883 Edition With Complete Illustrations (A Robert Louis Stevenson Classic Novel)

Not much more excitement for a youth than having lived the life nxt to Gentlemen and Pirate alike, yo ho yo ho and a bottle of rum.

Treasure Island is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This book is a classic pirate tale that follows a young boy named Jim Hawkins, who unexpectedly crosses paths with a pirate called Captain. Captain decides to stay at the inn where Jim works. When the Captain dies, Jim somehow ends up with a treasure map to Treasure Island. Which is also the same map almost every fearless, dangerous pirate is after. Suddenly, Jim is throw into an adventure of his lifetime with his friend, the doctor, and a crew they gathered along with a ship. Jim’s life completely changes to a journey full of adventure, danger, deceit, and suspense.I enjoyed this novel. However, I thought the book was slow in the beginning, and, it took me a while to really get into the book. When I finally did, I couldn’t put it down! I grew to love the story and the characters. Robert Louis Stevenson created a classic fantasy adventure novel full of imagination. He includes many shocking plot twists in the story. This book was fun, and the dialogue was clever. I loved the characters. I especially liked Jim Hawkins, the main character. I liked how although he was very mature, he showed his true age through his childlike curiosity.All I all, Treasure Island is a classic adventure novel that will be talked about for years to come. I really enjoyed this pirate’s tale and will recommend it to others.“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

Nothing makes one feel quite so much like a child as reading over childhood classics, and yet the good ones evoke a feeling, not of childishness, but of childlikeness, if we can use such a word. These books bring us back to a simplicity and innocence that we may have difficulty accessing as adults, but which are nonetheless a return to ourselves as we are meant to be, and which our stresses and concerns and disappointments tend to obscure.Treasure Island presents a story familiar to us in its broad outlines from the countless retellings and adaptations that have come into being over the years, and yet the original story is the one that is worth knowing, and knowing better. The tale of young Jim Hawkins, and of Long John Silver, loses something in the retelling, and we have to go back to the words of Stevenson, to his careful and well-drawn descriptions, to see the whole cast of characters for who they are meant to be, with their faults and their virtues. Overall, the story is darker than the retellings; a large number of sympathetic characters die in the pursuit of the title's treasure. But at the same time, even the short-lived characters are, by and large, fully developed; they are real people, and we actually care about their fates, unlike so many stories where the high body count is merely a set of gruesome description of a paper-thin character going to his doom, where the death of so many extras has no more emotional impact than the bursting of a soap bubble. The genius of Stevenson is that he writes a solid story about characters who matter. Action and adventure don't take precedence to the characters who act and adventure. But you know the story. It's time to read it, or, if you've done so already, to read it again!

I had never read this book until I downloaded it for free on Kindle. Wow! How did I ever miss this one? In my youth I read Tolkein, Burroughs, Howard, and many others, but, somehow I never got around to reading Treasure Island. Not only is this one of the great pirate tales, it is also THE buried treasure book, and, one of the truly great adventure stories of all time. While there are many that will find fault with some aspects of the story, all in all, I would suggest that all would-be writers desiring to tell a tale of adventure should take the time to reread this tale before they begin their labors. I should say that having done so, the bulk of them would recognize how far short their own efforts fall. Technically; the book is extremely well written, the plot moves along at a brisk pace, the characters are well drawn, and the dialog sparkles. There is plenty of action, adventure, and suspense, all of it told in a crystal clear prose that wastes not a word. In a nutshell this may indeed be one of the greatest tales of adventure ever told.Although it has traditionally been perceived as a story for younger readers, having just read it at middle age, I believe that you shouldn't consider this a children's tale. Long John Silver is as darkly evil a character as ever appeared in print; he seduces men with a ready confidentiality, warm, friendly, knowing banter, and then cold-bloodedly murders them when their back is turned. He suffers no scruples, knows nothing of mercy, and sells anyone at anytime to the other side if he thinks it will profit him. I think Long John Silver would have done well as a Wall Street corporate raider.