Treasure Island (A Ladybird Book Ladybird Children's Classics)

Faraday, Joyce; Illustrated By Dennis Manton; Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 10: 0721405975 / ISBN 13: 9780721405971

Published by Ladybird Books, Loughborough, 1979

About this Item

First edition Ladybird hardback 52 pp colour illustrated. Good condition (matt pictorial boards). No inscriptions. No dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 49601

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Treasure Island (A Ladybird Book Ladybird Children's Classics)
• Publisher: Ladybird Books, Loughborough
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0721405975
• ISBN 13: 9780721405971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Manton, Dennis
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Lighter Books

About this title

Synopsis

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger

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.