Treasure Island

Adventure

First published: 1883
Print length: 252 pagesSandy Creek, 2009

Description

Young Jim Hawkins lives at the Admiral Benbow Inn, where the arrival of a frightened old sailor brings piracy to his doorstep. After the man’s death, Jim and his mother discover a map showing the location of Captain Flint’s buried treasure. Jim joins an expedition aboard the Hispaniola as cabin boy and quickly warms to its charismatic, one-legged cook, Long John Silver. Then he overhears plans for mutiny and realizes that much of the crew intends to seize the ship and treasure. On the island, shifting loyalties, armed conflict, and Jim’s encounter with the marooned Ben Gunn turn the voyage into a test of judgment and nerve. The adventure pairs youthful discovery with a wary study of greed, courage, and charm used as deception.

Reading profile

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Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Atmospheric · Descriptive · Direct

Pace

Brisk

Tone

Atmospheric · Playful · Suspenseful

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Plot

Emotional intensity

3 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 3 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

Coming of ageKnowledge and truthMoralitySurvivalWealth

About Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer whose work ranged across adventure, Gothic fiction, and childhood verse. His fiction often places questions of character inside stories of secrecy and danger, testing judgment against divided loyalties, concealed motives, and unstable identities. Treasure Island and Kidnapped give these concerns the outward form of voyages, conflict, and pursuit, while Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde turns them toward moral repression and the divided self. A Child’s Garden of Verses shows another side of his writing in its direct, lyrical attention to childhood imagination. After settling in Samoa in 1890, Stevenson became increasingly concerned by European and American influence in the South Seas, and his writing shifted from romance and adventure toward a darker realism. His critical standing declined during much of the twentieth century, but later reassessment restored attention to the breadth and seriousness of his work.

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Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Sandy Creek
Language: English
ISBN: 9781435118812

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