Jim Hawkins lives a quiet life at his family’s inn until a mysterious old sailor arrives with a dark past. When the sailor dies suddenly, Jim discovers a hidden treasure map in his chest. This exciting discovery sets Jim on a thrilling journey that will change his life forever.
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the...
Black Dog Appears and Disappears
It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and...
The Black Spot
About noon I stopped at the captain’s door with some cooling drinks and medicines. He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited.“Jim,” he said, “you’re the only one here that’s worth anything, and you know I’ve been always good to you. Never a month but I’ve given you a silver fourpenny for yourself. And now you see, mate, I’m pretty low, and deserted by all; and Jim,...
The Sea-chest
I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s money—if he had any—was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain’s shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of...
The Last of the Blind Man
My curiosity, in a sense, was stronger than my fear, for I could not remain where I was, but crept back to the bank again, whence, sheltering my head behind a bush of broom, I might command the road before our door. I was scarcely in position ere my enemies began to arrive, seven or eight of them, running hard, their feet beating out of time along the road and the man with the lantern some paces in front. Three...
The Captain’s Papers
We rode hard all the way till we drew up before Dr. Livesey’s door. The house was all dark to the front.Mr. Dance told me to jump down and knock, and Dogger gave me a stirrup to descend by. The door was opened almost at once by the maid.“Is Dr. Livesey in?” I asked.No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.“So there...
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About the Author
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, best known for his adventure novels like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born in Edinburgh, he struggled with poor health throughout his life, including tuberculosis, which influenced his travels and writing.
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