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  1. 610014604. Text. Treasure Island at Wikisource. Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys[ 1 ]) is an adventure and historical novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published in 1883, and tells a story of " buccaneers and buried gold " set in the 1700s. It is considered a coming-of-age story and is ...

    • Robert Louis Stevenson
    • 1883
  2. 3.85. 506,098 ratings17,395 reviews. "For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired ...

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  3. The Secret is a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada that symbolically represent events and peoples that ...

  4. Treasure Island, being an adventurous novel, deals with the good and evil sides of adventure. While the good ones turn out to be great explorers, the bad ones turn into rotten pirates. Jim, the novel’s protagonist, having lost his father at a young age, faces people from different walks of life.

  5. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel ‘Treasure Island’ was originally published as a serial from October 1881 to January 1882 under the title ‘The Sea-Cook’, or ‘Treasure Island’ in the Young Folks magazine. He has published it under the pseudonym “Captain George North.”. Later it was published in book form in 1883.

  6. Treasure IslandFull Book Analysis. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is both a bildungsroman and an adventure story, about a boy named Jim Hawkins who sets sail in pursuit of buried treasure. A bildungsroman is a coming-of-age story that follows a young protagonist on their intellectual and moral journey from childhood to young adulthood.

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  8. Sep 22, 2024 · Treasure Island, classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that was serialized in the magazine Young Folks in 1881–82 under the title The Sea-Cook; or, Treasure Island and published in book form in 1883. Although not the first book about pirates, Treasure Island is considered by many to be the best.

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