It is narrated by young Jim Hawkins, son of an innkeeper who sets sail on a schooner headed for a remote Caribbean island. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1893). Treasure Island: the sensationally popular boys tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. View other titles in Penguin’s Clothbound Classics Collection. Treasure Island - Penguin Clothbound Classics (Hardback) Robert Louis Stevenson (author). Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself.

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