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TREASURE ISLAND - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author RobertLouis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".First published as a book on 23 May 1883, it was originallyserialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 and1882 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of theHispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain GeorgeNorth.

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Islandis a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and alsoas a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in LongJohn Silver — unusual for children's literature. It is one of themost frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of TreasureIsland on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, includingsuch elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, theBlack Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrotson their shoulders.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and StrangeCase of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranksamong the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works havebeen admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges,Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James,Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London,Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said ofhim that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of hispen, like a man playing spillikins."