Part of the Penguin's Clothbound Classics Collection range.
The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure,devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy,Jim Hawkins,who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure.
Among the crew,however,is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winningCoralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh,the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer,the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil,themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886),and The Master of Ballantrae (1893).
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141192451Number of pages: 240Weight: 351 gDimensions: 205 x 135 x 23 mm
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