Arr, me matey!I've finally downed the children's classic, Treasure Island.Sadly, these pirates weren't nearly as sexy as I was expecting. Where were all the sweaty pirate abs I've come to expect from the plethora of trashy romance novels I've gobbled down over the years?Not here, that's for damn sure. And mainly because of the overabundance of bodice rippers on my bookshelf, I felt like I maybe needed to expand my maritime horizons, and it seemed that going with a classic sailor story wouldn't b...

LA MAPPA DELLA VITALa prima lettura, e probabilmente le prime, perché credo si sia ripetuta, risalgono alla mia infanzia, o giù di lì. Sicuramente con testo non integrale e adattato all’età.Mi piaceva, m’è piaciuto da subito: il protagonista ragazzino, Jim, nome semplice, senza fronzoli, la sua storia, le sue paure, il suo coraggio, le sue avventure (la sua formazione); il pirata con la gamba di legno, che è cattivo e mette paura, ma poi rivela d’aver cuore e protegge il ragazzo (anche se per in...

My absolute favourite adventure story of them all. You have the Admiral Benbow, a little boy named Jim Hawkins, "Captain" Billy Bones, a cruffy old pirate, an incredible eerie pre-story (black spot), a treasure hunt, the ghost of Flint (Ben Gunn), the fight with Israel Hands and of course the one-legged villain Long John Silver. So many fine characters and an absolutely compelling plot. I've watched all the movies and series about Treasure Island as a kid and still like that classic at my age. W...

Treasures, tropical islands, and rum soaked trope creating overkillsAmazingly good, dense, and complex writing for its timeI don´t want to say that professional college course creative writing is what makes US and UK authors so outstanding, but well, which other countries produce so many amazing fictional works? Before, there were a few classic pearls by authors that weren´t just able to write good stories, but understood the most important ingredient of compelling art Mixing character and plotF...

3 items worthy of note in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic treasure "Treasure Island":1) There are a ton of tropes! We understand that this is pretty much what Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ripped off, making tons of money off of this adventurous classic, including but not limited to: rampant alcoholism; a code of honor; castaways (at sea or in land); shipwrecks (new and ancient); treason (group & individual) & double crosses; mutiny, hostages, captures and shocking escapes; stranger...

English (Treasure Island) / Italiano«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 his lodging ...

YO-HO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!!!This is the iconic novel about pirates that it stands as the best example in this topic and easily one of the most adapted to other media novels in any genre.I can remember having watched several adaptations, live action films, animated movies, even an animated film using animals as the characters, there is the Muppets' one, a Japanese anime TV series, an European mini-series taking the story to outer space starring Anthony Quinn, the animated remake of that versio...

THE Pirate Adventure by Excellence. 18th century, Bristol Channel. Jim Hawkins is the young son of the innkeeper of the Admiral Benbow Inn. One day an old suspiciously wary sailor makes his entrance and lodges for a time. After his untimely death due to a stroke, revising his belongings, Jim finds a map revealing what could be the possible location of a treasure hidden by the infamous pirate Captain Flint and his gang. With the help of Dr. Livesey, John Trelawney, Captain Smollett and cook Lon...

Someone recently asked me what review I enjoyed writing the most, and, well, this is it:I have a massive problem with this book. It’s one I’m a little embarrassed to admit. The problem is not with the writing or the characters that Stevenson has created; it’s not even with the plot. The problem resides with Kermit the Frog. (Stay with me here!) I grew up watching the muppets. I became slightly obsessed with them. I kind of wanted to join them. So, whenever I read about Captain Smollett and Long ...

Treasure Island is a treasure for the young… If it is read in one’s childhood, it is irresistible and with age its magic doesn’t wear out for me but now it shines differently…Now, if I can’t get away nohow, and they tip me the black spot, mind you, it’s my old sea-chest they’re after; you get on a horse – you can, can’t you? Well, then, you get on a horse, and go to – well, yes, I will! – to that eternal doctor swab, and tell him to pipe all hands – magistrates and sich – and he’ll lay ‘em aboar...