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TREASURE ISLAND

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ILLUSTRATORS

MONRO ORR
N.C. WYETH
MERVYN PEAKE
JOSEF HOCHMAN
EDWARD WILSON 1941

 

COMPARISONS

WATCHING
LONG JOHN SILVER
STOCKADE
FALLING
BEN GUNN
BLIND PUGH
MAPS

FILM POSTER
DOW CHEMICALS AD

MORE PIRATES

see Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

see Herb Roth's, Piratical Barbarity 1930 Peter Pauper Press

 

 

The book originally appeared in parts in Young Folks, 1882-3, and was published in book form in 1883.

Stevenson himself wrote that the map “was elaborately and (I thought) beautifully coloured; the shape of it took my fancy beyond expression; it contained harbours that pleased me like sonnets; and with the unconsciousness of the predestined, I ticketed my performance ‘Treasure Island.’”

Another variant of the beginning. "... busy with a box of paints I happened to be tinting a map of an island I had drawn. Stevenson came in as I was finishing it, and with his affectionate interest in everything I was doing, leaned over my shoulder, and was soon elaborating the map and naming it. I shall never forget the thrill of Skeleton Island, Spyglass Hill, nor the heart-stirring climax of the three red crosses! And the greater climax still when he wrote down the words "Treasure Island" at the top right-hand corner! And he seemed to know so much about it too — the pirates, the buried treasure, the man who had been marooned on the island ... . "Oh, for a story about it", I exclaimed, in a heaven of enchantment ... " Lloyd Osbourne, the author's stepson quoted in Letley's edition of Treasure Island, Oxford 1998

 

 

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