HI127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Robert Louis Stevenson, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Alexander Smollett
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Konstam: long john silver has a lot to answer for . Treasure island the image that is portrayed in the book. Born in scotland in 1850, a lot of writers were scottish. Treasure island = a story for boys , he had great faith in this kind of story. Idea came from: stepson"s drawing of what he called treasure island. First publish in a magazine called young folks in 17 installments. Captain flint (doesn"t appear in the book) Members of his crew: billy bones, ben gunn. Story: look up plot, the following is just broad strokes. Billy bones has a chest that is connected to flint and treasure island. He dies, hawkins gets the chest which has a log book and a map to the island. A group of people decide to go to the island, they hire captain smollett to take them as well as long john silver as the cook.
