Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1893). Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure.

An old sea captain named Billy Bones dies in the inn after being presented with a black spot, or official pirate verdict of guilt or judgment. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Jim Hawkins is a young boy who lives at his parents’ inn, the Admiral Benbow, near Bristol, England, in the eighteenth century. View other titles in Penguin’s Clothbound Classics Collection. While its genre is technically historical fiction because its setting is the 1700s, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote it. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Treasure Island is also an adventure novel. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages. Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere.

Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. Treasure Island is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of pirates and buried gold.

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