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Treasure Island
β Scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Book ID
- 104477396
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Year
- 1883
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780553212495
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β¦ Synopsis
Treasure Island, published in 1883, popularized the now familiar characters of pirates and brought them to rum-swilling life. When an old sailor named Billy Bones dies in the inn belonging to young Jim Hawkinsβs parents, he leaves a greasy old map on which an βXβ marks the spot where treasure is buried. Jim joins the crew of a ship in pursuit of Bonesβs treasure, and on the seas meets up with Long John Silver, a peg-legged pirate who has infiltrated their ranks. Jim must survive mutinies and counter-mutinies, face hand-to-hand combat with drunken sailors, and outwit double-crossing thieves before the treasure can be his.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: There are many editions of Treasure Island. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms.
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper; laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel,**Treasure Island**, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever
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