Young Jim Hawkins narrates this landmark tale of pirates and buried gold, a story so cleverly constructed that it has captivated readers of every age since it first appeared. Jim’s mother runs the Admiral Benbow Inn, where an old seafaring lodger persuades him to watch for other sailors he dreads – precautions that fail when the old man is handed the black spot and dies soon after. Searching through the dead man’s belongings, Jim turns up a map marking the hiding place of the treasure amassed by the infamous Captain Flint, and before long he sets sail with Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney to claim it. Among the crew signed on for the voyage is the one-legged Long John Silver, who has his own plans for the gold. The story’s lasting grip on readers confirms what Stevenson told his friend W. E. Henley of the book: ‘if this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.’ It still manages to ‘fetch the kids’ today, along with every adult who has kept a taste for adventure.
ISBN 13: 9781840227635
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
