TREASURE ISLAND(ISBN=9780375756825)

　　Robert Louis Stevenson's cherished, unforgettable adventure magically captures the thrill of a sea voyage and a treasure hunt through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Jim Hawkins. Crossing the Atlantic in search of the buried cache, Jim and the ship's crew must brave the elements and a mutinous charge led by the quintessentially ruthless pirate Long John Silver. Brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized the imagination of generations of adults and children alike. And as David Cordingly points out in his Introduction, Treasure Island is also the best and most influential of all the stories about pirates.

　　Robert Louis Stevenson lived a life as adventurous as the books he wrote, which also include Kidnapped (1886). Born in Edinburgh in 1850, he was the child of a lighthouse builder. Not satisfied to live in Scotland, the world became his home. He married an American, traveled to the Adirondacks, Switzerland, France, and finally died on the island of Samoa in 1894.