Description

Well designed, "Treasure Island" is just a spectacular wool of piracy around the hot tropic oceans -- an unforgettable story of treachery that embroils a number of renowned swashbucklers, from truthful young Jim Hawkins to threatening, two timing Israel Fingers, to evil incarnate, impaired Pew. But most importantly, "Treasure Island" is just a complicated review of good and bad, as embodied by that hero-villain, Long John Silver: the happy dishonest buccaneer-criminal whose selfish search for platinum can't help but get one's heart of each soul who ever wished for love, treasure, and adventure. Since its publication in 1883, "Treasure Island" has supplied an everlasting fictional design for these eminent writers as Anthony Hope, Graham Greene, and Jorge Luis Borges. As David Daiches published: "Robert Louis Stevenson changed the boys' journey right into a classic of its-kind."