The curse of Treasure Island / Francis Bryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Francis.

Contributor:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

Standardized Title:

Jim Hawkins and the curse of Treasure Island

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treasure Island (Imaginary place)--Fiction.

Treasure Island (Imaginary place).

Treasure troves--Fiction.

Treasure troves.

Genre:

Adventure fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

291 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2002.

Summary:

Treasure Island, under the title The Sea Cook, was first published as a magazine scrial throughout the winter of 1881-82. When it appeared in book form in 1883, it established Stevenson's reputation. He had written it during a rainy holiday in Scotland, partly for the amusement of his American stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. His characters became instantly famous and passed forever into popular culture, especially Long John Silver with his wooden crutch, his greeting. "Jim, lad," and his parrot, Cap'n Flint, who cackled "pieces of eight!"

Never out of print, Treasure Island sells thousands of copies worldwide every year. Among Stevenson's contemporaries it received wide acclaim for its memorable characterization, clear language, realistic atmosphere and rattling good narrative.

The Curse of Treasure Island is the spellbinding sequel to the greatest adventure story ever written.

At the End of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's gripping adventure story, the Hispaniola sailed away with "great heaps of coin ... bars of gold ... doubloons and double guineas." But some treasure had to be left behind -- as were three surviving pirates, deliberately marooned. Their leader, Long John Silver, had changed sides in time to save his skin, and on the voyage home to Bristol slipped ashore, helping himself to some of the hoard as he vanished.

Jim Hawkins, the cabin-boy who narrated the story, returned to live in the English countryside near his friends Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, and grew up to become landlord of the family inn. He swore that "oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island."

But one day, ten years after his return, a beautiful stranger and her young son come looking for Jim Hawkins, and he is led back to the South Seas, to even greater danger than before, to violence and a mystery ...

This thrilling sequel to one of the greatest adventure stories ever told is written in the same spirit and with due homage to the wonderful original.

Contents:

Prologue: Grown to Man's Estate 1

Part 1 The Bright Face of Danger

1 A Mysterious Arrival 7

2 Violent Encounters 15

3 Under Siege Again 24

4 The Majesty of the Law 31

5 Fugitives All 39

6 The Night Riders 46

Part 2 To Travel Hopefully

7 My Clever Uncle 55

8 Old Friends Are Best 63

9 The Hispaniola 71

10 The Black Brig 79

11 Ocean Waves 85

12 Treasure Island Again 89

Part 3 Black and Blacker

13 A Mysterious Disappearance 97

14 Our Difficulties Increase 106

15 The Captain's Ruse 114

16 I Argue My Case 124

17 The Smell of Death 131

18 The Pit of Evil 140

Part 4 The Impenitent Thief

19 The Savagery of Man 149

20 Escape into Peril 156

21 A Safety of Sorts 161

22 The Jaws of Danger 168

23 Dry Land Once More 175

24 And We Meet Again 183

Part 5 Gentlemen of Spirit

25 A Motley Crew 195

26 In Sinister Times 202

27 A Fearful Reunion 209

28 The Game's Afoot 217

Part 6 Let the Blow Fall

29 Steel Meets Fire 227

30 Dishonour Among Thieves 234

31 Of Deepest Inhumanity 243

32 The Faces of Our Enemies 251

33 The Wonder of Battle 259

34 The Last, Longest Moments 270

Epilogue: A Bed of Roses? 277.

Notes:

Previously published as: Jim Hawkins and the curse of Treasure Island. 2001.

Related Work:

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Treasure Island.

ISBN:

0670030899

OCLC:

48774084