Treasure Island - Brossura

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1853261033 ISBN 13: 9781853261039

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

Riassunto

`Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written. When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax.

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To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world --E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review

Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction. No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild --H. L. Mencken

L'autore

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession, but was allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted strongly against the Presbyterian respectability of the city's professional classes and this led to painful clashes with his parents. In his early twenties he determined to become a professional writer.
The effects of the often harsh Scottish climate on his poor health forced him to spend long periods abroad. After a great deal of travelling he eventually settled in Samoa, where he died on 3 December 1894.

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• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853261033
• ISBN 13: 9781853261039
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 218