![]() ![]() ![]() Folk never get tired of this story, and Stevenson’s morally protean antihero, Long John Silver, is one of the most iconic figures in popular fiction, like his other great creation, Dr. It is a glorious reading experience, which goes a long way to explaining its multiple adaptations on film, television, radio and the stage, which collectively run to three figures and that’s without the comics, videogames, prequels, sequels, musicals, and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which is basically the same thing. I’ve just read it again and the feeling was exactly the same. For my money, it’s the quintessential adventure novel. It’s up there with Robinson Crusoe, The Coral Island, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Huckleberry Finn, Peter Pan, Kim, King Solomon’s Mines and Swallows and Amazons. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is one of those quintessential literary adventure stories. Gentlemen o’ Fortune and Boys Smart as Paint: Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island’ ![]()
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