The plot is set in the mid-18th century, when an old sailor who identifies himself as “The Captain” starts to lodge at the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on England’s Bristol Channel. He tells the innkeeper’s son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for “a one-legged seafaring man”. A seaman named Black Dog recognizes the captain as his former shipmate Billy Bones, and confronts him. They get into a violent swordfight; Black Dog flees, and Bones suffers a stroke. That night, Jim’s father dies suddenly. A few days later, a blind beggar named Pew visits the inn, delivering a summons to Bones called “the black spot”. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers another stroke and dies. Pew and his accomplices attack the inn but are routed by mounted excise officers, and Pew is trampled to death by one of their horses. Jim and his mother escape with a mysterious packet from Bones’ sea chest, which is found to contain a map of the island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. Jim shows the map to the local physician Dr. Livesey and the squire John Trelawney, and they decide to make an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as a cabin boy.
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of “buccaneers and buried gold”. It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
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Shtëpia Botuese | Collins Classics |
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Numri i faqeve | 181 |
Autori | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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