Publisher's Synopsis
AnnotationsThis book is unique because it contains a literary criticism that was made by Jannette TorresToday plays an adventure novel and specifically ... one of pirates! And what better choice than the quintessential classic of this type of literature, Treasure Island. It was written by the Scot Robert Louis Stevenson in 1881, being published by installments in a children's magazine.The book presents all the ingredients of a good history of these characteristics: fierce buccaneers with wooden legs, long voyages in distant seas, hidden treasures in lost islands, riots, boardings and even talking parrots. Not in vain has been and remains one of the reference novels in the genre. And of course I liked it, although it was easy since pirate stories always came up.SynopsisThe day after his father's death, Jim Hawkins casually discovers a strange map in the trunk of an old pirate who has died at his inn. The map will be responsible for an exciting expedition to an unknown island in search of the mythical treasure of Captain Flint. But the adventure will also be a kind of "journey of initiation" for Jim, who will become an adult orphaned and become an adult, forced to make decisions by the force of adversity and the desire for victory. A novel admirably constructed, as much for the self-interest of the intrigue as for the character of its vigorous characters and the unmistakable language of them.Personal opinionRobert Louis Stevenson is known to be the author of the most classic stories and fantasy adventures of youth literature, such as the adventure novel Treasure Island, the historical novel The Black Arrow and the well-known horror novel The Strange Case of the Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Many of them have been preferred by the young audience and have been taken to the big screen on several occasions. The author was very appreciated in his time and later also, having its continuity in other famous writers like Joseph Conrad, H.G.Wells or Jorge Luis Borges.He was sick for a long time and tuberculosis forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates, which gave him the opportunity to know many different places and cultures, which of course he used for his books. He died in exotic Samoa, where the natives called him Tusitala (the storyteller).
