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Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys [1]) is an adventure and historical novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It was published in 1883, and tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold" set in the 1700s.
Shin Takarajima (Japanese: 新宝島, lit.'New Treasure Island') is a one-shot manga published by Ikuei Shuppan in 1947. It was written by Sakai Shichima, and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.
Dr. David Livesey (/ ˈ l ɪ v s i /) is a fictional character from the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.As well as doctor, he is a magistrate, an important man in the rural society of southwest England, where the story opens; his social position is marked by his always wearing a white wig—even in the harsh conditions of the island on which the adventure takes place.
A prequel novel to Treasure Island, titled Porto Bello Gold, was published in 1924 by Arthur D. Howden Smith. [full citation needed]British historian Dennis Judd presents Silver as the main character in his 1977 prequel, The Adventures of Long John Silver, [10] and in the 1979 sequel, Return to Treasure Island.
Captain Alexander Smollett is the fictional captain of the schooner Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.He plays an important part in disciplining the main characters on the ship as the story progresses, and helps the protagonists survive against the pirates later on.
Treasure Island is a play in four acts and ten scenes by Jules Eckert Goodman that is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name. [1] It was first published in 1915 by Samuel French, Inc. , [ 2 ] and was later included in the children's play anthology Another Treasury of Plays for Children (1926, Little, Brown and Company ...
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Hands' and O'Brian's drunken fight on the Hispanola One More Step, Mr. Hands by N.C. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.. Israel Hands appears as a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and media based on it, in which he is the Hispaniola ' s coxswain and one of Long John Silver's pirates.