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The Wrecker

Robert Louis Stevenson

The story centers on the mysterious abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll.

"The Wrecker" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne is an adventure novel. The story centers on the mysterious abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Atoll.

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It was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands. The trades blew strong and squally; the surf roared loud on the shingle beach; and the fifty-ton schooner of war, that carries the flag and influence of France about the islands of the cannibal group, rolled at her moorings under Prison Hill. The clouds hung low and black on the surrounding amphitheatre of mountains; rain had fallen earlier in the day, real tropic rain, a waterspout for violence; and the green and gloomy brow of the mountain was still seamed with many silver threads of torrent.

Contents

  1. 01Prologue.
  2. 02In the Marquesas.
  3. 03The Yarn.
  4. 04Chapter I. A Sound Commercial Education.
  5. 05Chapter II. Roussillon Wine.
  6. 06Chapter III. To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton.
  7. 07Chapter IV. In Which I Experience Extremes of Fortune.
  8. 08Chapter V. In Which I Am Down on My Luck in Paris.
  9. 09Chapter VI. In Which I Go West.
  10. 10Chapter VII. Irons in the Fire.
  11. 11Chapter VIII. Faces on the City Front.
  12. 12Chapter IX. The Wreck of the “Flying Scud.”
  13. 13Chapter X. In Which the Crew Vanish.
  14. 14Chapter XI. In Which Jim and I Take Different Ways.
  15. 15Chapter XII. The “Norah Creina.”
  16. 16Chapter XIII. The Island and the Wreck.
  17. 17Chapter XIV. The Cabin of the “Flying Scud.”
  18. 18Chapter XV. The Cargo of the “Flying Scud.”
  19. 19Chapter XVI. In Which I Turn Smuggler, and the Captain Casuist
  20. 20Chapter XVII. Light from the Man of War.
  21. 21Chapter XVIII. Cross-Questions and Crooked Answers.
  22. 22Chapter XIX. Travels with a Shyster.
  23. 23Chapter XX. Stallbridge-Le-Carthew.
  24. 24Chapter XXI. Face to Face.
  25. 25Chapter XXII. The Remittance Man.
  26. 26Chapter XXIII. The Budget of the “Currency Lass.”
  27. 27Chapter XXIV. A Hard Bargain.
  28. 28Chapter XXV. A Bad Bargain.
  29. 29Epilogue:
  30. 30To Will H. Low.

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
332 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers