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    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
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    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth

    By Robert Louis Stevenson and N. C. Wyeth

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    This swashbuckling adventure novel is a tale of pirates, maps, and treasure. Featuring glorious illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.

    This coming-of-age story follows Jim Hawkins as he sets off on a dangerous quest to retrieve buried treasure. Read of perilous journeys on high seas, murder plots, and mutiny in this action-packed tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1911, this illustrated edition of Treasure Island breathes new life into the classic adventure novel with N. C. Wyeth’s beautiful illustrations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPook Press
    Release dateSep 17, 2020
    ISBN9781528767491
    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.

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    • 4/5
      A fun classic. Highly recommend for every adolescent boy on earth!
    • 3/5
      I just really had trouble getting into this. The characters were so two-dimensional and the "action" went from a lot of talking to a lot of killing and back to a lot of talking. Not my cuppa Joe.
    • 4/5
      When an old seaman named Billy Bones comes to stay at the Admiral Benbow Inn run by Jim Hawkins and his parents, the young English boy finds himself unexpectedly caught up in an exciting adventure involving pirates and hidden treasure. Enlisted in the local squire's quest to find the treasure buried on the eponymous Treasure Island, Jim becomes a cabin boy on the voyage out, encountering treachery and dangers he did not anticipate...Like many children's classics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Treasure Island was first published serially, in the Young Folks magazine, before being released in book form in 1883. An instant success, it has remained immensely popular ever since, published in innumerable editions, and frequently adapted for stage, film and television. Somehow, despite being well aware of it since childhood, I had never picked it up, until it was assigned as one of our texts in a class I took during the course of my masters. I'm so happy that I finally did get to it, as I found it immensely engrossing and entertaining. Atmospheric, exciting, it immediately grabs hold of the reader, and takes them along on an extraordinary adventure. The themes here are fascinating, and led me to include the book in a paper I wrote on the island as an example of the 'lapsed topos,' as envisioned by Jane Suzanne Carroll, in her Landscape in Children's Literature. Recommended to all readers who enjoy adventure stories, or who love tales of seafaring and pirates.
    • 5/5
      The book that gave us our mythical idea of pirates. Such a great story! One of the best novels I have ever read!
    • 5/5
      This book contains everything you could expect from a story like this. Although this is one of the well-known classics, I had not read it yet. I am very happy that I have done so now.

      The story follows Jim Hawkins who lives with his mother in the "Admiral Benbow" inn in a seaside town. When pirate Bill, who is a client at the inn, leaves a treasure map after his death, Jim sets off on an adventure to find the treasure. It is written in short chapters and after each chapter you want to know what Stevenson has in store for Hawkins and co. Because of the interesting story and the short chapters I read this fairly quickly.

      If you have not yet become acquainted with this classic, it is highly recommended.



    • 5/5
      Fun and wonderfully told adventure story. It’s amazing how much of piracy in pop culture owes to Robert Louis Stevenson.
    • 5/5
      So there I was, drifting in Pandemic Land, wondering what to read next, when the soft dulcet voice of Lou Reed drifted into my sullen consciousness: "I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seasOn a great big clipper shipGoing from this land here to thatOn a sailor's suit and cap..." And, then, right after that, this early Dylan lyric came crashing through the Pandemic Mayhem: "Haul on the bowline, we sang that melody...like all tough sailors do, when they're far away at sea!" In a moment, the die was cast. I knew that the next book I would read, or reread rather, would be Treasure Island, one that I read some, what, forty years ago, as a mere child? It was a great idea! What a treat! What pleasure! And the fact that the back cover said, "For children, aged 10-14," discouraged me not a whit! To make matters even better, it so happened that my edition was a facsimile of a 1911 one, illustrated by one NC Wyeth, the father of the very Andrew (Mansplain Alert!), who painted Christina's World (and not to forget the voluptuous Helga). But I digress. This adventure story was an unalloyed delight, a story of intrigue, treachery, courage, and a cast of characters right out of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland! I can say no more save this: English literature is awash (as we pirates say) with secondary characters of the highest order: Holmes' Dr Watson, Dickens Madame Defarge, King Arthur's Merlin, Alice's Cheshire Cat, and so on...so allow me to introduce another one, the charismatic Long John Silver, the humble, affable ship's cook in this gripping yarn...or was he only a cook? Read it to find out!
    • 4/5
      When people are amazed that the Harry Potter books are for kids but they are fun for any age, I giggle and think about this book; Ms. Rowling was not the first.
    • 4/5
      A beautifully rendered and surprisingly complex and morally ambivalent adventure tale about magical (if horrid) places like Treasure Island. A great rendering of fantasy and so convincing about the heroic role that a young man can play that one might forgive the bosh about "God save the Queen," English patriotism, and true men.
    • 4/5
      It's a classic, and as such I couldn't shake the feeling that I was going to be quizzed on it later. I must have read this when I was a kid, but if so, it was so long ago that I'd forgotten almost everything about the story. Reading it as an adult, I was thrown off by some unrealistic/inconsistent character behavior, but on the whole I wish I'd read it earlier and more often!
    • 3/5
      Treasure island is a book about a boy named Jim Hawkins. Jim started in an inn with his mother. As Jim was at the in other pirates that came warned Jim about the pirate with a peg leg. Later on Jim found a treasure map in one of the pirate's chest. afterward Jim left with a doctor, a pirate, and the pirates crew to the island. After the crew and Jim got to the island the Captain realized that the map was replaced with a fake one not showing where the treasure was hidden. Later on exploring the island Jim met a man named Ben Gunn who lived on the island for 3 years. Soon after Jim met the peg leg pirate that was named long john who went by the nickname Silver. Later silver attacked Jim's ship and reveled that he had the real map.Lastly following the real map the crew and Jim found that soon before another group of pirates already took the treasure ,so the captain took the crew and Jim Hawkins back home.I enjoyed the book and the story.The problem was that I felt that the book had some down sides. The things I liked about the book was that the book had one main goal that all the people had. Another thing I liked was the plot twist at the end where the treasure wasn't there when the crew and Jim checked because other pirates already took it. A thing i thought was cool was that in the story most of the characters are mentioned or connected in some way. A thing I disliked about the book was that because there was only one goal it seemed to me that the entire book was really slow. Lastly another thing I disliked was that I expected more action and adventure from the book because it is a book about treasure and traveling. If you do not like a book that is slow and and very much action I would not recommend this book
    • 4/5
      Jim Hawkins is running an inn with his parents when an old drunk captain, Billy Bones, over stays his welcome and eventually dies on their premises after being confronted by other sailors. Jim knows the captain had a chest and ransacks it and finds a map. After fleeing he comes in contact with Captain Smollett and they decide together to go after the treasure which is located on an island. They hire a crew one of which is Long John Silver but during the voyage the crew headed by Long John, mutinies. Once on the island the captain and a few others grab supplies and run. There are a few scourges between the two parties and many are left dead or injured. Jim scours the island finds a lost sailor, Ben Gunn, who had been left by Billy Bones. Ben has been alone on the island and little does everyone know he has found the treasure and hidden it elsewhere. Jim also recovers the ship which has been left unattended minus one sailor who he eventually kills. The mutineers discover the loss of the treasure and go crazy eventually allowing the captain and his remaining crew to get to the ship, collect the treasure hidden by Ben, who has now joined them, and set sail back to England. Long John Silver also rejoins them and by orders from England the captain can do nothing to him but along their journey home Long John Silver abandons the ship and is never seen again. The remaining crew return home and a few take advantage of their new found wealth while others flounder it. A classic tale of the good guys triumphing and conquering to the end.
    • 3/5
      Chapter 7: We're alternating reading and listening to it on audio in the car. So far, Morgan prefers my reading (even though the audio is EXCELLENT--highly recommended) because he says the accents are hard to understand and there's no commentary from mom, so I guess we'll be switching to only read-aloud from the book. I can't believe the difference in readability between this classic and today's novels aimed at the same target age-group. I'm not sure that my 8th graders could handle this one. A true testament to how simplified our language has become and how low are standards have gone. Anyway, my 9-year-old is fascinated with the story, so far, even more than with the Percy Jackson series, but he couldn't have enjoyed it as an independent read.

      Update: We sort of gave up on reading it--it was much better on CD (I didn't know how to pronounce most of the boring sailing terms and I could never sound like a good Long John Silver like the actor on the tape). My son needed paraphrasing and commentary so often that I had to realize that this was far beyond his level of comprehension, but I did enjoy it. I feel like I hadn't really missed anything not having read it in my childhood because it's alluded to so often and the characters are so part of our culture that I pretty much already knew the story. Overall--it was a fun read/listen, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
    • 4/5
      Think I read this at primary school, though it may have been early days at secondary school, so will say circa 1986 as a guess. Certainly enjoyed it at the time, as I was always into this type of tale, along with watching several adaptations of this book. Unsure whether I'd appreciate it as much if I read this as an adult, but either way it deserves at least four stars.
    • 3/5
      Well enough entertaining, says I.
    • 4/5
      Billy Bones, former pirate and a drunk, has taken residence at the inn of Jim Hawkins' father. He's hiding out from his former comrades who want the treasure map he's hiding. When he dies suddenly, Jim Hawkins finds the map which starts him on a sea voyage to recover the treasure. Of course the pirates are on it from the start and it takes quite some adventures and luck to succeed.
      This must be the source of all these treasure hunts and pirate adventures. It was a fast and enjoyable romp, with likable characters and villains that get their just deserts. I liked it more than expected - even though I kind of knew the story, the details of the tale were fresh and entertaining.
    • 2/5
      Depressing, and occasionally surprising violent.

      It starts off in the same pattern of any children's adventure or fantasy novel. An ordinary boy, living a rather humdrum life, finds himself in the centre of some extraordinary events that lead to him being swept away on a great adventure.

      However, the adventure itself isn't the colourful, intoxicating affair we might expect. Treasure Island itself, far from being the beautiful Caribbean island we expect, turns out to be a hostile, oppressive place - the very air of which is suffocating for both fictional character and reader alike.

      There is no romanticising the pirate's profession here. The pirates are simply shown as regular crooks who want to get rich quick! Stevenson does create a couple of genuinely scary villains, however, in John Silver and Captain Flint. We never actually meet Flint, but the memory of his terrible deeds echoes throughout the book.

      It is a boys book, there's no doubt about that. I am not in this book's target demographic or gender! (There are quite literally NO females in this book, with the exception of Jim Hawkins' mother!) I found it a slow, dull read at times, but I struggled through (after a long hiatus in the middle during which I indulged in a couple of Georgette Heyers) and I am glad I did. It is a good book, albeit not my thing at all. I did, however, find it interesting as a:

      *Character study, particularly of Long John Silver, whose - ahem - forceful personality dominates the book. I also found the extraordinary relationship between Jim and John fascinating.

      *Coming of age story. Jim undergoes some extreme tests of character, and shows amazing maturity for his age (how old is he supposed to be? 12?). Nonetheless, he did and saw things that no child his age should have to be exposed to. Will there be repercussions later on in life? He survived through some terrible trials, and emerged with his moral integrity intact, but will he also bear scars from his experiences on Treasure Island? It's a short little book, and much is left unsaid. The fate of all the major characters upon their return to England is revealed at the end of the book. All the major characters, except Jim himself!
    • 4/5
      Good Adventure. The language was a little hard to follow in some places, but still a good read.
    • 4/5
      The next book was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenon. A young boy, Jim Hawkins, lived quietly by the sea with his parents in an the Admiral Benbow inn. One day, a stranger moved into the Inn, dropped a few gold coins as payment for the room and he told them, “This should cover me for awhile-let me know when that payment runs out” (that is my paraphrase). The stranger wanted to stay far enough from shore but close enough to see the boats come in and out. When more payment was due, the owner would ask him to pay only to get a loud snorts and a growling stair from the stranger. He never paid anymore for the Rum or the room. The stranger was actually Billy Bones. They all sailed with Captain Flint, a feared pirate that sailed the seven seas. Billy Bones did not have much; he carried an old sea chest, a love for Rum, and some gold coins. He asked Jim to watch for a one legged man. Soon came other pirates in search of the pirate’s treasure map. The pirates gave Mr. Bones the “black spot” and he fought with another pirate. He died before they killed him. Jim’s father died too and left him and his mother alone. After the death’s, Jim searches Billy Bones and the Chest and he finds the treasure map. He trusted Dr. Livesey, the local physician and the local legal magistrate. The Squire John Trelawney was naïve. The Doc warns them not to talk much about this knowing the danger involved. They eventually get the Hispaniola a great ship and a crew. Capt’n Flint is also the name of Silver’s parrot. I’m writing too much so I’ll finish quickly. In short, the cut throat pirate, Long John Silver, was in the crew and fought and fought to get the treasure. The squire did talk too much and let the cat out of the bag.Jim serves as the cabin boy. He hid in the apple barrel and heard the pirate’s plans to find the treasure then kill all those that stand in their way. We find Ben Gunn on the island. He’d been there for years after being marooned there. He was semi nuts but had enough wherewithal to know how much to share and how much to help little Jim. Jim ran away and worked to the best of his ability hiding and fighting and taking the Hispaniola and beaches it in a hidden site. He fought Hands and sent him to Davie Jones locker. He grows up quickly and is able to make it through. I don’t want to say what happed to the treasure for fear that some of you may not have read it yet. So go read it. It’s 336 pages. I found it pretty predictable but that is common. I enjoyed this book.
    • 3/5
      What a fun book. I had know idea this is the story that Long John Silver came from. This is why I need to go back an do the Classics and now I'm in the right frame of mind and ready for the new Pirates Carribean movie.
    • 4/5
      I read this aloud to my son twenty years ago--and could remember none if it! I did enjoy this re-read: it is apparent why young boys would thrill to the possibilities. In actuality, it has a more probable story line than many YA books for boys written today. In that sense, timeless.
    • 5/5
      Adventure can rely on character. Robert Lewis Stevenson demonstrates this in his classic novel Treasure Island. There's plenty of adventure in Treasure Island: mysterious strangers arrive on stormy nights; innocent people survive savage attacks; abandoned ships drift out to sea; pirates climb the walls of forts under the cover of darkness to attack sleeping innocents; castaways, marooned for years, are rescued; fortunes are found and lost again.But what the reader walks away from Treasure Island remembering is the books characters. Long John Silver is the best known, but there are plenty of others, pirates and non-pirates alike. It's these characters that have kept readers coming back to Treasure Island generation after generation. They continue to frighten, to intrigue and to entertain.Illustration by N.C. WyethIn fact, most of what we know about pirates, we learned from Treasure Island. Pirates have wooden legs and wear eye patches. They walk with a crutch, but in a pinch, they can transform their crutch into a deadly spear. They keep parrots as pets and teach them to say "pieces of eight." When they get together, they can't help but sing "Sixteen men on a dead man's chest/ Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!" They are charmers, but they cannot be trusted. They terrify us, but we can't help but want to be like them. And we're always a little bit relieved when they get away in the end.Illustration by N.C. WyethThe menace and magic of Robert Lewis Stevenson's pirates are both captured by N.C. Wyeth's illustrations. The elder Wyeth has been admired by illustrators for generations, and many consider his artwork for Treasure Island to be his best. I don't know enough about the art of illustration to effectively judge N.C. Wyeth, but C.J. and I have developed a few standards in almost 15 years of shared museum going. One is do we believe the figures in the painting existed before the moment of the artwork and will they continue to exist afterwards. I think Wyeth's do. His illustrations capture parts of a larger moment. N.C. Wyeth is also a master of composition. Notice this group of three pirates climbing the walls of the fort. The viewer sees the two on the wall right away, but did you notice the third one who has already entered the fort's shadow? And look at the angle of the mast and the yard arm in the illustration above. There is no steady, level place for Jim to hide in as he climbs the ship's rigging to escape the pirate. Everything is sharp angles and dangerous slanted beams. The only solid right angle in the picture is the horizon off in the distance. Beyond that horizon, the safety of home.I can see why N.C. Wyeth is considered one of the best. His illustrations create characters with lives outside the paintings just as a good author creates characters with lives outside the book they inhabit. Wyeth and Stevenson are wonderful together.
    • 3/5
      I should say straight away that I'm not a big fan of buccaneering adventures and that I mostly listened to this audiobook because Treasure Island has been so influential and has been adapted and copied in so many ways that I wanted to know what the original was like. It's a great adventure, and probably the kind of fantasy many boys have growing up. Alfred Molina is an excellent narrator. In the end, I enjoyed, but no more.
    • 5/5
      When I was a child I would often peruse a little pamphlet my parents owned. It was titled Hand that Rocks the Cradle and featured “a select list of books to read to children.” Most of the commentary about the selections was straightforward and a little bit dull, but I’ve never forgotten what Mr. Bluedom had to say about Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.WARNING: If you read this book you may not be able to enjoy any other book again because you will subconsciously compare it to the perfection of this book and always find it lacking.NOTE 1: If you read this book and find it does not captivate you, then there’s no hope for you, and you may look upon yourself as a truly sorry case.NOTE 2: If you look up the word “adventure” you will find listed in the dictionary as its definition “circumstances that follow the plot of Treasure Island.”As it turns out, I have read and enjoyed many books since my dad first read Treasure Island aloud to me many years ago, but nevertheless there is some truth to what Bluedom wrote. Certainly Treasure Island is the essential pirate story, and was instrumental in creating the modern mythos of the backstabbing buccaneer. But I would give it a higher accolade than that, and say that it is one of those great books that attains perfection within the bounds of its genre and, in doing so, transcends the genre. Thus, though it is often referred to as a “boy’s adventure story,” it can be enjoyed at all ages. Not all of my childhood favorites have held up as I’ve grown older, but this has.One of the reasons is Stevenson’s writing. It’s perfect. As G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen … there was a kind of swordsmanship about it.” While his prose may have been richer in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the man always had an unfailing sense of atmosphere, and here every paragraph seems to be steeped in sea salt. I find the haunting introduction of “Captain” Billy Bones particularly well done:I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.And then there is Long John Silver, one of those larger-than-life figures who has long since assumed a life beyond what his author intended for him. We tend to think of Silver now as being menacing from the very start of the story (due, no doubt, to actors such as Orson Welles and Tim Curry playing the role on screen), but he is first introduced to us as a lovable old cook with impeccable manners … and he retains those impeccable manners right up until the end of the book, with only occasional glimpses of his true ruthlessness. The conversations between him and Jim Hawkins (our narrator/hero, an honest and likeable lad) are masterpieces of manipulative wordplay.My favorite part of the book, however, has to be the “Israel Hands” chapter. The situation is very complicated, and the tension incredible. Here are two characters who must work together to safely navigate a ship. At the same time, Jim knows that the wounded Israel is armed and plotting to kill him. And as they work, they talk about ghosts, morality, and the afterlife.”Well,” said I, “I’ll cut you some tobacco; but if I was you and thought myself so badly, I would go to my prayers, like a Christian man.”“Why?” said he. “Now, you tell me why.”“Why?” I cried. “You were asking me just now about the dead. You’ve broken your trust; you’ve lived in sin and lies and blood; there’s a man you killed lying at your feet this moment; and you ask me why! For God's mercy, Mr. Hands, that’s why.”My only complaint with the book is that the ending is rushed and less exciting than I remember. But that is a minor flaw. I could go on and on about Treasure Island, but I’ll spare you. If you wish to know more, you must read it yourself.
    • 3/5
      I reread this book at the beginning of this summer, right when the third Pirates movie was coming out. Not only that, but I read it while on vacation at a friend's lakehouse. Needless to say, I spent the entire weekend pretending I was a pirate in my own head. I forgot how much I really do love this book. Even before the Pirates of the Caribbean craze, I've always been partial to pirates - mostly because of this book. I think that since the main character is a young boy, it was easy for me to build a fantasy world to myself using the events in this novel. I spent many a long day, hiding out in the woods pretending to hide from the evil pirates.Overall, a fantastic children's novel. Lush scenery and, despite the cliche, characters that practically leap from the page.
    • 5/5
      Well, clearly it"s rollicking, and this time around I both really enjoyed Treasure Island (mini-barrage of sea books since I"ve been in landlocked Austria) and got a bit of clarity on whey I never enjoyed it quite as much as I wanted or expected to (I did love it, but never quite quite enough for my dad, who read it to me when he was crazy busy with the paper and basically saw it as the end- and be-all of boy"s own adventure stories, bar none. Come to think of it that probably does a lot to inform the way he feelz out in the boat nowdays). It"s the beginning! Stevenson seemed to be worried the kids wouldn"t relate, to judge by the intro to this edition, and so he set it out for them REALLY painstakingly - "Here"s a PLAUSIBLE way a kid JUST LIKE YOU could actually have a real pirate adventure. Watch as I lead you through the steps from your workaday farm life." Annoying! And of course, these days, unnecessary - generations raised on astronaut dreams have no trouble expanding their horizons to imagine going to see. Other than that, wonderful, wonderful, and I found Silver a lot more ambiguous and compelling and Ben Gunn a little more cheesy than I did when I was seven.
    • 5/5
      I had heard it was one of the world's great adventures, but I always thought it would be a "little boys book." It turned out to be highly nuanced and can probably be enjoyed by all ages and genders because it works on many levels. The adventure itself is a great hook, and you don't want to stop reading at the end of each chapter, but it turns out that it's all really about loyalty and what that means, and about how to survive a journey with pirates and still keep one's honor. Long John Silver is one of the great complex villains/foils I've encountered in fiction, not a caricature like the brilliantly colorful villains in Dickens, and not so one-dimensional as the sadistic evildoers of other contemporary children's authors like Brian Jacques and Jerry Spinelli. He's as charming and compelling to the reader as he is to the hero-narrator. The illustrations in this edition are good, too.
    • 5/5
      This one is an all time favourite of mine, from when I was a boy till now. So much more than what a lot of people consider as a children's book.
    • 3/5
      Tresure Island was a ok book but it was not the best book i have ever read. There where pirate words in the book that made you not understand what they where saying so that kind of buged me.
    • 4/5
      This is a classic for a reason. The story is engaging, and the action scenes are realistic and entertaining.

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    Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth - Robert Louis Stevenson

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