A rousing tale of treachery, greed, and daring,Treasure Islandcontinues to enthrall readers of all ages.
Throughout his life, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was plagued
by ill health, which interrupted his formal education at Edinburgh
University. Pursuing the life of a bohemian during his twenties and
thirties, he traveled around Europe and formed the basis of his
first two books, An Inland Journey (1878) and Travels with a Donkey
(1879). Stevenson gained his first popular success with Treasure
Island (1883). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which
sold forty thousand copies in six months, and Kidnapped appeared in
1886, followed by The Black Arrow (1888) and The Master of
Ballantrae (1889). In 1888, he set out with his family for the
South Seas, traveling to the leper colony at Molokai, and finally
settling in Samoa, where he died.
Patrick Scott is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University
of South Carolina and co-editor of Studies in Scottish Literature.
From 1996-2011 he was Director of Rare Books and Special
Collections at Thomas Cooper Library, which has the largest
Scottish literature collection outside Scotland. His earlier
publications on Victorian boys' books include essays on Hughes's
Tom Brown's Schooldays and Kipling's Stalky & Co.
Sara Levineis the author of the novel Treasure Island!!!and the
short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays have been
widely anthologized, and she teaches writing at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
“[Treasure Island is] the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.”—G.K. Chesterton
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