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Title: Treasure Island


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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850 He was a
sickly youth and developed a severe respiratory
illness at age 23.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Told by a doctor he would only live a few more
months but lived 14 more years. Died in 1894
after living in the South Seas for 7 years.
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Treasure Island
Stevenson began writing Treasure Island on a wet
and dreary day in Scotland to entertain his
stepson. The boy had drawn a map of an island
which Stevenson began adding names to and talking
about pirates and buried treasure.
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Treasure Island
Stevenson said, The next thing I knew I had some
paper before me and was writing out a list of
characters.
5
  • Other books by Stevenson
  • Kidnapped
  • The Black Arrow
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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  • Themes
  • Good vs. Evil

Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
  • Themes
  • Coming of Age

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  • Themes
  • Greed

Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
  • Narrators
  • Jim Hawkins
  • Dr. Livesey (Ch. 15-18)

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Treasure Island
Setting The novel begins in England at the
Admiral Benbow Inn run by Jim Hawkins and his
parents.
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