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A simple, straight-forward adventure tale. I can understand why it captured the hearts of its juvenile audience when it was written, and why so many boys wished to go to sea and seek for buried treasure. The hero of this tale is the unlikely Jim Hawkins, whose luck and fast thinking gets him out of many a deadly scrape; the villain the memorable Long John Silver, who forms for most of us a lasting image of the one-legged pirate with a parrot squawking at his shoulder.
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Before there was Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise, there was Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island - in book form only. Although I don’t think most of today’s youth would have the patience to read Stevenson’s long descriptive narratives, that was the only way, in his day, to bring dangerous sea voyages, desert islands, pirates and swashbuckling to life for them. I can just imagine how this story must have captivated the imagination of young readers and provided the
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So, I re-read Treasure Island at age 45. Nothing wrong with that.
Uno de mis libros favoritos cuando era niña.
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