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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest, he sets sail with a crew to find Captain Flint's buried gold.

"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson is an adventure novel. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest, he sets sail with a crew to find Captain Flint's buried gold.

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Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.

Contents

  1. 01Treasure Island
  2. 02Part One—The Old Buccaneer
  3. 03I The Old Sea-dog at the “Admiral Benbow”
  4. 04II Black Dog Appears and Disappears
  5. 05III The Black Spot
  6. 06IV The Sea-chest
  7. 07V The Last of the Blind Man
  8. 08VI The Captain’s Papers
  9. 09Part Two—The Sea-cook
  10. 10VII I Go to Bristol
  11. 11VIII At the Sign of the Spy-glass
  12. 12IX Powder and Arms
  13. 13X The Voyage
  14. 14XI What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
  15. 15XII Council of War
  16. 16Part Three—My Shore Adventure
  17. 17XIII How I Began My Shore Adventure
  18. 18XIV The First Blow
  19. 19XV The Man of the Island
  20. 20Part Four—The Stockade
  21. 21XVI Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
  22. 22XVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
  23. 23XVIII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
  24. 24XIX Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
  25. 25XX Silver’s Embassy
  26. 26XXI The Attack
  27. 27Part Five—My Sea Adventure
  28. 28XXII How I Began My Sea Adventure
  29. 29XXIII The Ebb-tide Runs
  30. 30XXIV The Cruise of the Coracle
  31. 31XXV I Strike the Jolly Roger
  32. 32XXVI Israel Hands
  33. 33XXVII “Pieces of Eight”
  34. 34Part Six—Captain Silver
  35. 35XXVIII In the Enemy’s Camp
  36. 36XXIX The Black Spot Again
  37. 37XXX On Parole
  38. 38XXXI The Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer
  39. 39XXXII The Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
  40. 40XXXIII The Fall of a Chieftain
  41. 41XXXIV And Last

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
247 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers