Treasure Island (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Robert Louis Stevenson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551114097 ISBN 13: 9781551114095

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2012

Synopsis

John Sutherland takes a fresh approach to a classic in his new Broadview edition of Treasure Island.|The adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel’s place in Stevenson’s biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this new edition. Exploring the novel’s genesis in Stevenson’s “plundering” of other writers, his writer’s block, and the surprisingly disturbing and complex nature of what was meant to be a children’s story, Sutherland argues for the enduring vitality and appeal of Stevenson’s first novel. Appendices include Stevenson’s writing about the novel, contemporary reviews, and sources on which Stevenson drew (or from which he borrowed) when writing Treasure Island.

About this title

About the Author

John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature at University College London.

From the Back Cover

The adventure story told in Treasure Island has become a part of popular folklore. John Sutherland discusses the novel's place in Stevenson's biography and oeuvre in his learned and lively critical introduction to this new edition. Exploring the novel's genesis in Stevenson's "plundering" of other writers, his writer's block, and the surprisingly disturbing and complex nature of what was meant to be a children's story, Sutherland argues for the enduring vitality and appeal of Stevenson's first novel.

Appendices include Stevenson's writing about the novel, contemporary reviews, and sources on which Stevenson drew (or from which he borrowed) when writing Treasure Island.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551114097
• ISBN 13: 9781551114095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290