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Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

By R. L. Stevenson, Introduction by Jake Arnott

Vintage Classics

JUVENILE FICTION

320 Pages, 5 x 8

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $11.95 (US $11.95)

Publication Date: January 2009

ISBN 9780099511298

Rights: US

Penguin Random House UK (Jan 2009)
Vintage Classics

Price: $11.95
 
 

Overview

One of the best-loved adventure stories of all time, this tale forever linked pirates with tropical islands, shoulder parrots, and X-marks-the-spot treasure maps.

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate’s chest in his parents’ inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confronts mutiny, murder, and the charismatic and devious Long John Silver.

Reviews

"There are few novels which grip so thrillingly as those first read in childhood, and for me none which has quite matched the excitement of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island."  —P. D. James, author, The Children of Men


"Reading Treasure Island at the age of seven or eight was my real awakening as a reader . . . it is all as frightening and exciting when read for the umpteenth time in middle age as when first discovered in childhood."  —A. N. Wilson, author, The Lying Tongue


"What I didn't anticipate was the power of Stevenson’s prose. His ability to bring everything vividly to life is still astonishing. It was probably the first time for me that reading became as exciting as messing about. The pirate has a dangerous glamour to him, a degenerate dandyism, something, once I was in my teens, that I would admire in people like David Bowie."  —Jake Arnott, author, The Long Firm

Author Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) is the author of Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Jake Arnott is the author of Johnny Come Home and The Long Firm trilogy.