La historia de "La Isla del Tesoro" nos narra las aventuras por las que pasa Jim Hawkins luego de embarcarse con el doctor Livesey y el caballero Trelawney hacia una isla en busca de un tesoro hallado en las manos de un pirata muerto cerca al lugar donde vivía.
Es un libro que sin ser histórico ni (por lo menos para mí) netamente pirata nos habla de rasgos de piratería. Es una historia de piratas metida en una historia de marineros. Jim allí tendrá que usar todo su ingenio y su poca resistencia física si no quiere caer abatido a manos de los salvajes pero simplones piratas, ser arrojado a los peces o torturado. Al ser una historia para niños Stevenson suavizó digamos la historia, no es algo que necesariamente hunda la historia, me gustan ver novelas bien escritas, tal vez simples pero con el hilo de la narración muy bien llevado como en este caso. Sin descripciones extraordinarias ni monólogos abundantes pero que sin embargo nos explica bien las inquietudes y deseos de los que allí navegan.
Es como un acertijo ir descubriendo lo que se traman, sus planes, y eso la verdad me pareció interesante. A pesar de todo me gustó mucho la habilidad de Jim y su osadía para actuar frente a los piratas, me encantó también cómo está dibujado Jhon El Largo con su astucia, verborrea y crueldad sin parangón. Se establece una relación admiración-odio entre Jim y el viejo cocinero, un duelo, casi una complicidad. Eso me pareció lo más profundo de la novela.
En suma una historia sencilla, no tan épica, pero que sin embargo me sirvió para pensar nuevamente en leer más libros de aventuras.

No había leído este clásico de las novelas de aventuras y reconozco que ha sido interesante. Es una novela muy amena, fácil de leer, de ritmo rápido y que consigue introducirte en la historia.
Lectura recomendable para lectores que necesiten algo suave y sin complicaciones.

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I hadn't read this classic adventure novel before and I must admit that it was interesting. It is a very enjoyable novel, easy to read, fast paced and manages to draw you into the story.
Recommended reading for readers who need something smooth and uncomplicated.

✩ 2 stars ✩

What to Expect:
➼ Swashbuckling Pirates
➼ Hidden Treasure
➼ Famous Phrases You’ll Recognize
➼ Long John Silver
➼ Loads of Dead Pirates
➼ Classic Literature
➼ Intended for Children
➼ First Person POV

This book is going at the top of my “not for me” pile. I was expecting an epic adventure meant for children full of picturesque islands and buried treasure. What I got was a boat full of murderous pirates and scene after scene of death and betrayal. In no world is this book appropriate for children. It boggles my mind that anyone would ever think otherwise. The main character is described as a boy but he is voiced by a man in the audio which also likely impacted my experience. Honestly though, I don’t think it would have improved my opinion to have pictured a boy experiencing all of these horrific things.

I never watched the muppet treasure island movie growing up and would have said that I didn’t know this story at all prior to reading this, but there were many characters and phrases that I did recognize. There is no denying that this book has had a big impact and for that reason alone I’m not dropping my rating further. That’s about the nicest thing I have to say about this book. What a bleak story to share with children. Sure, they find the treasure in the end, but the cost was far too high.

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Pre-read: Classic pick for November!

I had read this story years ago to my son when he was a boy and I either did not realize or had forgotten what a rollicking good adventure story this was.

Stevenson knows how to create tension, suspense and relief where in the end evil loses and goodness wins, but it's quite a gauntlet to race through to get there.

A young boy, Jim Hawkins lives at an inn his parents run when an old pirate by the name of Billy Bones comes to stay. It turns out that Bones has something of great value to a lot of other pirates who are willing to get it from him.

There are many close calls and almost-caughts, almost killeds in the beginning, but finally Jim, a Dr. Livesey and the district Squire, Mr. Trelawney acquire a ship and crew and embark to the island that carries a treasure according to the map Jim, accidentally, procured from Bones.

Unfortunately, Trelawney, who is a bit of a nimbus, has not been discreet or discerning and without realizing it has hired a bunch of black-hearted pirates to run the ship, all lead by Long John Silver.

I don't wish to ruin the story for people who haven't read the book so that's all I'll say, but I do not think a movie could ever do this written narration justice. Stevenson is such an eloquent writer and so much depends on the first person narration. Movies are largely limited by showing rather than telling.

For all the youngster both child and adult, this is an adventure story everyone should read.

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.

An old sailor named Billy Bones comes to lodge in the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on the West English coast. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man."

A former shipmate, Black Dog, confronts Bones and engages in a violent fight with him. After Black Dog is run off, a blind beggar named Pew visits to give Bones "the black spot" as a summons to share a map leading to buried treasure. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers a stroke and dies.

Pew and his accomplices attack the inn, but Jim and his mother save themselves while taking Bones's sea chest. Inside the chest, they find a map of an island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure.

Jim shows the map to the local physician Dr. Livesey and the district squire John Trelawney, and they decide to make an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as a cabin boy. They set sail on Trelawney's schooner, the Hispaniola, under Captain Smollett.

Much of the crew, as it is later revealed, are pirates who served under Captain Flint, most notable of which is the ship's one-legged chef "Long John" Silver. Jim, sitting in an apple casket, overhears the conspirators' plan to mutiny after the salvage of the treasure and to assassinate the skippers. ...

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: یکی از روزهای سال 1973میلادی

عنوان: جزیره گنج؛ نویسنده: رابرت لوئیس (لوئیز) استیونسون (استیونسن)؛ مترجم: هاجر تربیت؛ تهران، بنگاه ترجمه، چاپ دوم 1343، در 278ص؛
مترجم: اردشیر نیکپور؛ تهران، گوتنبرگ، چاپ دوم 1351، در 364ص؛ موضوع: داستان کودکان از نویسندگان اسکاتلند - سده 19م

مترجمهای دیگر، خانمها و آقایان: «حسین دستوم»؛ «یوسف فرخ»؛ «عباس کرمی فر»؛ «پرویز نجم الدینی»؛ «محسن سلیمانی»؛ «امیرمهدی مراد حاصل»؛ «صفورا کلهر»؛ «احمد کسایی پور»؛ «سپهر شهلایی»؛ «علی اکبری»؛ «علیرضا نعمتی»؛ «محمدرضا جعفری»؛ «نعیمه ظاهری»؛ «آرمین هدایتی»؛ «مهسا طاهریان»؛ «مهسا یزدانی»؛ «محمد قصاع»؛ «امین دادور»؛ «سهیل رمضانی»؛ «محمد همت خواه»؛ «ناهید حاجی سلیمانی»؛ «شهلا طهماسبی»؛ «بیتا ابراهیمی»؛ «سوده کریمی»؛ و ...؛

داستانی ماجراجویانه، که «رابرت لویی (لوئیز یا لوئیس) استیونسُن» نویسنده «اسکاتلندی» نوشته است؛ این رمان نخستین بار در سال 1883میلادی به صورت کتاب به چاپ رسید، و موضوع آن درباره ی دزدان دریایی، و گنجی مدفون، در یک جزیره است؛ «جزیره ی گنج» هماره در زمره ی ادبیات کودک و نوجوان، بوده است، و منتقدان آن را به خاطر توصیف استادانه ی نویسنده، از: «شخصیت‌ها»، «رویدادها»، و «فضای داستان»، بسیار ستوده‌ اند؛ بارها به روی صحنه ی تئاترها، و پرده ی سینماها رفته، و از محبوبیت ویژه ای، نزد نوجوانان، برخوردار است

رابرت لویی استیونسن، تنها فرزند «توماس استیونسن» یکی ازبهترین مهندسان شهر بود؛ او که از کودکی ضعیف و مریض احوال بود، پس از سفر به کشورهای گوناگون، سالهای پایانی زندگی را، در سرزمین دلخواهش «سامو» گذراند؛ مردمان بومی، ایشان را «قصه گوی قصه ها» نامیدند؛ دریانوردی پیر، در مسافرخانه‌ ای میمیرد، و «جیم» در صندوقچه‌ ی او، نقشه ی گنجی را مییابد؛ او و دوستانش، به جزیره‌ ای دور سفر میکنند، اما دزدان دریایی خطرناکی نیز به دنبال همان گنج هستند

نقل از آغاز متن: (مسافرخانه ی «آدمیرال بِن بو»: از من خواسته اند که هرچه درباره ی جزیره ی گنج میدانم، از اول تا آخر بنویسم؛ برای همین هم چیزی را از قلم نمیاندازم؛ ماجرای من، موقعی شروع شد که پدرم هنوز مسافرخانه ی «آدمیرال بِن بو» را اداره میکرد و این همان موقعی بود که دریانوردی پیر، برای اولین بار به مسافرخانه ی ما آمد؛ خوب به یاد دارم، انگار همین دیروز بود؛ او جلوی در مسافرخانه آمد؛ پشت سرش، یک گاری دستی بود که روی آن صندوقچه ای قرار داشت؛ مرد تازه وارد، قوی و بدقواره بود و کت ملوانی آبی رنگ و کثیفی ب�� تن داشت؛ روی دستانش علامت زخمی دیده میشد و ناخنهایش سیاه و شکسته بود؛ روی صورتش هم علامت زخم شمشیر بود

او به خلیج کوچک جلوی مسافرخانه نگاه میکرد و برای خودش سوت میزد؛ پس از مدتی، ناگهان شروع به خواندن یکی از آوازهای قدیمی ملوانها کرد: پانزده مرد، روی سینه ی یک مرده؛ یوهوهو، هوهوهو

دریانورد پیر، پس از اینکه از پدرم یک نوشیدنی گرفت، گفت: «جای جالبی است؛ آدمهای زیادی اینجا می آیند؟»؛

پدرم گفت: «نه متاسفانه.»؛

مرد گفت: «پس جای من این جاست.»؛ بعد، خدمتکاری را که گاری دستی را آورده بود، صدا زد و گفت: «صندوق را بیاور تو!» و به پدرم گفت: «من آدمی ساده ام؛ از شما هم فقط نوشیدنی، ژامبون و تخم مرغ میخواهم.»؛

بعد چند سکه ی طلا روی میز انداخت و گفت: «هر وقت تمام شد، بگویید! در ضمن میتوانید مرا ناخدا صدا بزنید.»؛

ناخدا مرد ساکتی بود.؛ تمام روز را با دور��ین برنجی اش، در اطراف خلیج یا روی صخره ها پرسه میزد؛ شبها نیز در گوشه ای از سالن مینشست و مینوشید؛ او، اغلب از ما میپرسید: «در جاده، دریانوردی ندیدید؟»؛

اوایل فکر میکردیم که او دوست دارد با دریانوردها هم صحبت شود؛ اما وقتی دریانوردی سر راهش به بریستِل به مسافرخانه ی ما میآمد، ناخدا قبل از ورود به سالن پذیرایی، ابتدا از پشت پرده های در، با دقت به او نگاه میکرد و آنگاه وارد میشد و مثل همیشه، ساکت در گوشه ای مینشست.؛

روزی، ناخدا مرا به کناری کشید و گفت: «جیم! اگر همیشه مواظب باشی و هر وقت ملوانی یک پا دیدی، فوری به من بگویی، هر ماه یک سکه ی نقره ی چهار پنی به تو میدهم.»؛

آن روز، فکر یافتن دریانورد یک پا، خوابهای مرا آشفته کرد؛ با اینحال، بیش از آن که از دریانورد یک پا بترسم، از خود ناخدا میترسیدم، زیرا بعضی از شبها که سرش گرم میشد، همه را ساکت و مجبور میکرد که به داستانهای ترسناکش گوش کنند و آوازهای قدیمی ملوانها را با او بخوانند.)؛ پایان نقل

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 27/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 05/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

[13th book of 2021. Artist for this review is American illustrator Howard Pyle.]

My younger brother triggered a long-forgotten movie that we had watched and enjoyed as children, Disney’s Treasure Planet; the pirates were animal, cyborg/robots, the ships flew in space rather than on water… I don’t remember much more about it, only that we both enjoyed it. It is, of course, a science-fiction retelling of Stevenson’s story “for boys”.

Children love pirates, for whatever reason: perhaps because they have big ships, they have swords and guns and parrots, and their life is one giant nomadic adventures on the seas. This book, published in 1883, is probably just exciting to a child as it was back then. I’ve always felt somewhat guilty for never having read it, though I am certainly about 20 years too late. I prefer my novels to be heavier, pensive, and with far less action. In a way, I enjoyed this as much as I would enjoy an action-movie, though I don’t watch action movies on the whole. This is a fairly short book and not difficult to read but I found I could only manage a chapter here and there before putting it down again and wanting to read something with more depth. It is fun and fast-paced with nothing to chew on, exactly how Stevenson wanted it, I imagine.


"So the Treasure was Divided"—1905

Had I read this as a boy, I am sure my brother and I would have played Treasure Island together, arguing over who was going to be Jim Hawkins. The Prime Minister of the time, William Gladstone, is said to have stayed up all night reading the book to find out what happened. Though, I didn’t react in quite the same way, I do love that anecdote and respect Stevenson’s work as a classic adventure story.

it's fun to feel smart while consuming the same content as an old timey six year old. that's where children's classics come in

In one of Manny's 1,682 reviews - no, I can't remember which one** - he says that it must have been incredibly exciting being an avid reader of modern novels in the 1880s and 1890s. Not only were they churning out great classics at a rate of knots, they were inventing whole genres - Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Picture of Dorian Gray, HG Wells - and Treasure Island is one of those, a novel which invented a whole a-harr talk like a pirate genre. Stevenson's prose is quite magical, he absolutely convinced me with his descriptions of winds and seas and gunnels and jibs and booms and mizzenmasts and fo'c'sles (it's okay, you can print the whole word - forecastle - there - the printer won't charge you any more) and all of that. Plus, some of the ripest dialogue anywhere -

"If that ain't to your fancy, some of my hands being rough, and having old scores, on account of hazing, then you can stay here, you can. We'll divide stores with you, man for man; and I'll give my affy-davy as before to speak the first ship I sight, and send 'em here to pick you up... Refuse that, and you've seen the last of me but musket-balls."

"There!" he cried. "That's what I think of ye. Before an hour's out, I'll stove in your blockhouse like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour's out ye'll laugh on the other side. Them that die'll be the lucky ones.




Cap'n Flint says : As well as a ripping yarn, it's also a nifty dissection of the concept of being a "gentleman" which you may take sociologically, politically or psychologically, as suits ye best, ye lubbers. Squaaawk! Pieces of eight! A tot of rum would go down a treat! Skwawwwk!


**Update : I found a previous note I'd already written so I can confirm that it was Manny's review of A Rebours where he says :


It must have been so exciting to be a novelist in the second half of the nineteenth century. You weren't limited to just creating a novel; if you were talented, you could create a whole new kind of novel.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...


1883 : Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
1885 : Germinal : Emile Zola
1886 : The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : R L Stephenson
1891 : The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde, 1891
1892 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1895 : The Time Machine : H G Wells
1897 : Dracula : Bram Stoker
1898 : The Turn of the Screw : Henry James
1898 : The War of the Worlds – H G Wells

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; strangers appearing from the mist & pirate flags; raresome slapstick comedy ("...[he] fell from his whole height face foremost to the floor." [16]) & good comedic timing (the parrot tells everybody The Secret, ruining plans); a compass made up entirely of human bones; & ghosts.

2)Jim Hawkins is your typical YA protagonist prototype. He's the go-between the two fighting groups, the one who bargains with the villain Long John Silver (mmm.... breaded fish and shrimp...yumm) and propels the narrative forward. He's the center; a dreamer; while he loses his humility he attains a coming-of-age wisdom that peaks at the point where he brandishes a pistol for the first time.

3)The plot resembles a Hollywood blockbuster. There is very little inaction, but when it occurs (such as the villain's cliched soliloquy or the factions grunting against their enemies) it does decelerate the pace of the story. Here is a very substantial urge to make everything explosive & loud. Thank you, Mr. Stevenson!

"FIFTEEN MEN ON THE DEAD MAN'S CHEST----YO HO HO, AND A BOTTLE OF RUM!"(Robert Louis Stevenson)

This classic adventure story begins with an unpleasant guest at the Admiral Benbow Inn who the young and courageous Jim Hawkins overhears telling dreadful stories of hangings....walking the plank....storms at sea, and an evil place called Skeleton Island.

But lo and behold....when you meet the mutinous crew of the Hispaniola and Long John Silver himself with his two hundred year old feathery sidekick Dr. Flint screeching...."Pieces of Eight!" the endangerment captures your attention full force.....and beware.....do not trust any of ole Long John's "affy-davys"!

With overheard secrets....the search for dabloons, and killings galore.....all with a dead buccaneer's spirit about, why "Shiver My Timbers" Treasure Island adds up to one swashbuckling and entertaining read! Really enjoyed it!

Last year I read Kidnapped and I was truly amazed by the fact that I ignored the existence of such a good novel, so I decided that I definitively have to read more Stevenson. Treasure Island was the second novel I ever read. Then I was too young and I realized I didn’t remember neither the plot nor the characters nor anything. Truth be told I remember it was a novel about a treasure in a desert island and someone (a pirate?) called John Silver. Even though I had completely forgotten what Treasure Island was about (besides the treasure and the island), I was absolutely certain that I really enjoyed reading it and that it was a great book. So after the great experience of reading kidnapped I decided that I had to read Treasure Island one more time. I recently found it in a bookstore and for a moment doubted about buying it: I was afraid it might be a children’s tale or that I wouldn’t enjoy it as much as I did the first time.
Well, I bought I read it and NO REGRETS. Actually I was sorry I waited so long for reading it again, this is simply a marvellous tale.
The nautical terms and the pirate slang made reading a little slow at first but then I got used to it. The rest is awesome. You can read what this book is about in Wikipedia so I won’t bother you with the “Young Jim Hawkins meets captain Flint, blah blah blah” I will say this though: Yes, it’s a coming of age book, and no, it is not a "tale for children". If you read this book when you were young and kind of remember liking it, read it again. If, on the other hand, you kind of remember not liking it, then read it again, chances are you were too young to grasp all the beauty of this book. #JustSaying.
Treasure Island is the result of a very talented author who puts in one place all the elements to create a classic of literature: A great plot, amazing descriptions, and incredibly well developed characters. The prose is magnificent: the pace is excellent with more than one cliff-hanger and a couple of twist that make you put the book down for a moment until you realise what just happened and then eagerly resume reading to know what will happen next.

TL;DR: Read this book if you haven’t. Read it again if you read it when you were young. Because it’s awesome, that’s why.

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Robert Louis Stevenson was an author I became acquainted with very early in life, as the 1959 date suggests; this was my first book by him, and one of the staple favorites of my childhood. (The date is rough; I may have been younger than seven when I first read it, and two is just a guess as to how many times I read it --it was at least that, but maybe more.) My rating is my hindsight assessment of how it stacks up today in the mental canon of literature I've read; but if I'd read it today, with an adult's perspective, my rating might actually be higher.

Stylistically, this book has much in common with the author's Kidnapped (without the Scots dialect), and illustrates some of the qualities that lead me to rank him as a favorite writer: a well-crafted plot with a hefty adventure and excitement quotient; vivid, vibrant characters; a solidly moral orientation; a protagonist I could identify with. His formal, 19th-century diction seemed to me back then (and probably also would today) like serious prose for a serious story, and seemed appropriate to the historical setting. (Admittedly, the nautical terms and some of the other vocabulary, using terms outside my experience, was a challenge, but I could usually roughly interpret it from the context --for instance, I could tell that a "lugger" was some sort of boat.) Today, I can recognize the book as a classic of Romantic style (I didn't know what that was back then), with its frank evocation of emotion and exotic --once England is left behind-- tropical island setting and pirate milieu. But Stevenson does not "romanticize" pirates, in the sense that much modern popular culture does; these are brutal, coarse, treacherous cutthroats motivated by greed, with nothing glamorous or charming about them. Long John Silver, of course, is the template for the stereotype of the one-legged pirate captain with a talking parrot; but the formation of the stereotype testifies to the power and vitality of the original creation. I agree with the Goodreads description above that the ambiguous relationship between young narrator Jim Hawkins and Silver is one of the strong points of the book, and the storyline has a coming-of-age theme to it through the relationship, as Jim realizes both that an outwardly jovial and winsome facade can mask a personality capable of very ruthless and self-serving choices --and that, at the same time, the ruthless and self-serving aren't cardboard villains, but human beings.

Another similarity to Kidnapped here is that both novels have no major female characters. Indeed, Stevenson wrote this at least partly to please a nephew who was at the age for disliking girls, and had promised him a novel with no female characters except the hero's mother. :-) Given that superstitious 18th-century sailors believed a woman's presence on a ship caused bad luck, that's not an unrealistic situation. So, this isn't a read for fans who insist on having small-r romance with their historical/adventure fiction!