Treasure Island

ISBN-13: 9780141321004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Opis

Stevenson's classic tale is set in the mid-1700s and is narrated by young hero Jim Hawkins. Its fast-moving plot is filled with mysterious maps, shipwrecks, smugglers, mutiny, menacing pirates and a hunt for buried treasure.

Recenzje

"Over Treasure Island I let my fire die in winter without knowing I was freezing."

O autorze

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne. Eoin Colfer is the megaselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman, The Legend of . . . books and, most recently, the WARP series. He lives with his family in Ireland. www.eoincolfer.com