| Treasure Island: (Robert Louis Stevenson Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508476004 ISBN-13: 9781508476009 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6" W x 9" (0.48 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: QUIRE 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 cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: |
