Treasure Island
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4.1 • 484 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classic edition.
When Billy Bones first walks into Jim Hawkins’ family-run inn, the prevailing sentiments are fear…and curiosity about what’s in his oversized chest. After a band of rogue pirates comes looking for him, Billy dies, leaving Jim and his mother in possession of his belongings, which contain a map leading to the treasure of the dreaded Captain Flint.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure story plays out on the high seas-and it’s packed to the gills with heart-pounding suspense, double crosses, mutiny, mayhem, and even murder. First published as a magazine serial in the 1880s, Treasure Island set the standard for action-adventure thrillers. Hop in and prepare for a wild ride, complete with peg-legged pirates and their trusted parrots, casks of rum, tropical islands, and X marks the spot!
Customer Reviews
Treasure island
The best ever pirate novel, written with blood and thunder. Ah haarrrr!
This book is amazing
You should really read treasure island it has action,adventure and mystery it has a good ending
Painful
Okay, so it was my first classic. I am grateful. Classics obviously are known for words of incessant length and dated phrases. This however felt less dated and more in character. The dialogue was that of pirates, so in that regard I was okay and it read fine. But good god people edit, while not quite Victor Hugo in his need to overly describe the scenery of the Parisian catacombs, this was a little Tolkien-esque in its verbosement. I get it, but five words would have worked why you twenty?
Also changing POV for no reason whatsoever.
It just dragged, and I will be avoiding classics for a while.
Just watch Treasure Planet, it’s better.