Treasure Island
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island…
Peg legs, parrots, and buried treasure… with “Treasure Island” Robert Louis Stevenson indelibly marked the popular perception of pirates for future generations.
The tale that became “Treasure Island” began with a “treasure map” drawn for his 12-year-old stepson and the pirate story Stevenson spun to go along with the map. Published in serial form in 1881 and 1882 and in book form in 1883, “Treasure Island” brought him widespread popularity, launched his career as a profitable writer, and by the end of the 1880s, was one of the era’s most widely read books.
One of the world’s most beloved books, it has been widely read in many languages since its original appearance, and the story is one of the best-known around the world thanks to endless reprintings and translations, as well as numerous films, comics, and television adaptations.
Beginning with the appearance of an old seaman, Billy Bones, at the inn run by his family, young Jim Hawkins is drawn into a great adventure: the search for the treasure of the legendary pirate Captain Flint, buried on a remote island.
Probably the most unforgettable character is the wooden-legged, parrot toting seaman, Long John Silver. Utterly amoral and without scruples, ruthless and violent, but undeniably possessed of courage and quick wits, he was an unusual character for young readers’ literature then, and even now.
This quality large print edition is not an electronic scan or reproduction. It has been prepared by human editors and includes the complete unabridged text of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of buccaneers and buried treasure in a freshly edited and formatted edition printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design.
A generous 7.44″ x 9.69″-page size means that by increasing the page size along with the font size we are able to reduce printing costs and make complete, unabridged quality large print editions available at reasonable cost. This edition also includes a detailed biography of the author and annotations to aid the modern reader with especially unusual words or phrases.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON…
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850. A sickly child, Stevenson was often unable to attend school for long periods. He did not begin to read until he was seven or eight years old, but he began dictating stories to his mother at a very early age. His first book of short stories, “New Arabian Nights” (1882), was one of the United Kingdom’s earliest successful collections of short stories.
The 1880s saw a serious decline in Stevenson’s health and the most productive period of his career. Increasingly bedridden, he wrote most of his enduring and popular fiction while in this condition.
In 1888 Stevenson and his family sailed from San Francisco to travel the islands of the Pacific Ocean. In 1889 they arrived in Samoa, where they settled and built a house. The island setting stimulated Stevenson’s imagination and influenced his writing, and several of his later works are about the Pacific isles.
Best known for his fiction and, to a lesser extent, nonfiction, Stevenson was also an accomplished poet and a proficient musical composer.
Robert Louis Stevenson died, probably as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage, on December 3, 1894, at his home in Vailima, Samoa. He was forty-four years old.
Product details
Publisher: Apex Publications, Independently published (December 14, 2023)
Language: English
Paperback: 265 pages
ISBN: 979-8871753187
Item Weight: 1.34 pounds
Dimensions: 7.44 x 0.6 x 9.69 inches
List Price: $14.97
