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Treasure Island

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  • 1880 first published
  • 248 pages
  • ★ 3.8 (104 ratings)
  • 1,992 editions
  • 🎧 7 h 34 min free audiobook
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Treasure Island is an 1880 historical fiction and pirate adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It takes readers to Caribbean Area and Spanish Main in the 18th century. Readers will find themes of Treasure-trove, pirates, treasure troves and buried treasure.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 104 ratings, and 991 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 1,992 editions across 24 languages. On Project Gutenberg it was downloaded 31,688 times in the last 30 days.

At about 248 pages, most readers finish it in 4–5 hours. It is in the public domain, so you can read it free on Project Gutenberg or listen to the 7 h 34 min LibriVox audiobook.

About Treasure Island

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders
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Free audiobook

Treasure Island — LibriVox recording, 7 h 34 min in 34 sections.

Public-domain recording by volunteer readers. Listen online, download MP3s or stream from the Internet Archive.

Opening line

“Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-- and go back to the time when my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up lodging under our roof.”

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Treasure Island, Imaginary place
  • Treasure-trove
  • Pirates
  • Treasure troves
  • Children's fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers
  • Buried treasure
  • Voyages and travels
  • Treasure island, Imaginary place
  • British and irish fiction, Fictional works by one author
  • Asventure and adventures
  • Adventure and adventures
  • Caribbean area
  • Literature and fiction, juvenile
  • Adventure stories
  • Treasure troves, Juvenile fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Treasure Island?

Treasure Island was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1880.

What genre is Treasure Island?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fiction, Pirate Fiction, Adventure and Classic Fantasy.

How long is Treasure Island?

The median edition has 248 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

Is Treasure Island free to read?

Yes. It is in the public domain in the United States and can be read free on Project Gutenberg in EPUB, Kindle and HTML formats.

Is there a free audiobook of Treasure Island?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 7 h 34 min.

What books are similar to Treasure Island?

Readers who like it often enjoy Robinson Crusoe, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, II and A Christmas Carol.

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