Treasure Island
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First editionOriginal title
The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys
First publication
1881–1882 in magazine Young Folks
First book publication
1883
Literature form
Novel
Genres
Literary, adventure, young adult
Writing language
English
Author's country
Scotland
Length
Approx. 67,000 words
Notable lines
Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17— and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow Inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre-cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.
— First lines
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest,
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
"Dead men don't bite."
"I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me."
I dare say he met his old Negress, and perhaps still lives in comfort with her and Captain Flint. It is to be hoped so, I suppose, for his chances of comfort in another world are very small.
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.
Oxen and wainropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts, or start upright in bed, with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: "Pieces of eight! pieces of eight!"
— Last lines
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