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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pages
about 248
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
4.5 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of today:

--So be it, and fall on! If not, If studious youth no longer crave, His ancient appetites forgot, Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, Or Cooper of the wood and wave: So be it, also! And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie!

I. THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW . . . . 11 II. BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS . . . . . . 17 III. THE BLACK SPOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 IV. THE SEA-CHEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 V. THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN . . . . . . . . . . 36 VI. THE CAPTAIN’S PAPERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

VII. I GO TO BRISTOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 VIII. AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS . . . . . . . 54 IX. POWDER AND ARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 X. THE VOYAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 XI. WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE-BARREL . . . . . . 70 XII. COUNCIL OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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