Treasure Island (Puffin Classics) - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0147517141 ISBN 13: 9780147517142

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

Puffin Pixels is a new collection of classics featuring pixelated 8-bit cover artwork. For older readers nostalgic for video and computer games of the past, to kids looking for something a bit edgier on their bookshelf, Puffin Pixels will add a sophisticated, yet fresh flair to the canon.

Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captin Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island. But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages stand between him and the stash of gold.Not to mention the most infamous priate everto sail the high seas...

About this title

Review:

"Over Treasure Island I let my fire die in winter without knowing I was freezing."

About the Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0147517141
• ISBN 13: 9780147517142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304