Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Chapters: 34
Categories: Adventure fiction, Children’s literature, Novel, Young adult literature
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of “buccaneers and buried gold”. It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
Treasure Island proposes the notion that the search for gold is a futile one in that the most profound satisfaction comes from the development of wisdom, self-knowledge, and integrity. Those characters led by their greed down paths of treachery and violence pay devastating consequences.
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