Literature/Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure story of Jim Hawkins, an innkeeper’s son who finds an old pirate’s map of buried treasure and sails in search of it, with a crew that includes the one-legged sea cook Long John Silver.

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. To the Hesitating Purchaser

Part One: The Old Buccaneer

  1. Chapter IThe Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
  2. Chapter IIBlack Dog Appears and Disappears
  3. Chapter IIIThe Black Spot
  4. Chapter IVThe Sea-chest
  5. Chapter VThe Last of the Blind Man
  6. Chapter VIThe Captain’s Papers

Part Two: The Sea-cook

  1. Chapter VIII Go to Bristol
  2. Chapter VIIIAt the Sign of the Spy-glass
  3. Chapter IXPowder and Arms
  4. Chapter XThe Voyage
  5. Chapter XIWhat I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
  6. Chapter XIICouncil of War

Part Three: My Shore Adventure

  1. Chapter XIIIHow I Began My Shore Adventure
  2. Chapter XIVThe First Blow
  3. Chapter XVThe Man of the Island

Part Four: The Stockade

  1. Chapter XVINarrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
  2. Chapter XVIINarrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
  3. Chapter XVIIINarrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
  4. Chapter XIXNarrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
  5. Chapter XXSilver’s Embassy
  6. Chapter XXIThe Attack

Part Five: My Sea Adventure

  1. Chapter XXIIHow I Began My Sea Adventure
  2. Chapter XXIIIThe Ebb-tide Runs
  3. Chapter XXIVThe Cruise of the Coracle
  4. Chapter XXVI Strike the Jolly Roger
  5. Chapter XXVIIsrael Hands
  6. Chapter XXVII“Pieces of Eight”

Part Six: Captain Silver

  1. Chapter XXVIIIIn the Enemy’s Camp
  2. Chapter XXIXThe Black Spot Again
  3. Chapter XXXOn Parole
  4. Chapter XXXIThe Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer
  5. Chapter XXXIIThe Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
  6. Chapter XXXIIIThe Fall of a Chieftain
  7. Chapter XXXIVAnd Last