Treasure Island (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261033 ISBN 13: 9781853261039

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1993

Synopsis

'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.

When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure. Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island. There, mutiny, murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax.

About this title

Review:

To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world --E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review

Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction. No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild --H. L. Mencken

Book Description:

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14–18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853261033
• ISBN 13: 9781853261039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Brock H.M.