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... of them are definitive. To my taste, the Wyeth illustrations for Robinson Crusoe, The Last of the Mohicans, and Treasure Island will never be surpassed. The R.L. Stevenson Kidnapped and The Black Arrow are also justly held in the highest esteem. If you already have versions of ...
... planning to read at least the same amount of books in 2010. And I want to read more classics, like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide, Treasure island and The wizard of Oz. And I want to read more Don Quixote, as at this pace I will never finish it.
pbadeer in Book talk : A Fun Book Game - Part II (Dec 29, 2009, 3:57pm)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book #114 - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - Finished December 27, 2009
I hadn't read this book since I was a kid. It is a classic adventure stories - filled with swashbucklin' pirates, twists of fate, buried treasure, and plenty of suspense. It was past time for a re-read of ...
... and everyone else at LT!
I'm alternating The Fifth Elephant and Fool Moon with The Legends of King Arthur and Treasure Island . There's just so much to read, I can never choose one book at a time!
... daniel defoe (20 january-22 january)
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the inheritance of loss kiran desai (12 february-16 february)
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penguin island anatole france (19 january-20 january)
Lotharia in 50 Book Challenge : Lotharia challenges herself to 50 in 2009 (Dec 15, 2009, 10:41pm)
... by Eoin Colfer Read February 28, 2009
9) Nobody's Darling by Teresa Medeiros Read March 8, 2009
10) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Read May 31, 2009
11) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Read June 1, 2009
12) The Book ...
This quiz is fun - the answers don't always obviously correspond to any book! I got Treasure Island . I really should read that one of these days ~_~.
... compiler of the list has certainly not read their Milton.
I would add:
Mr Jones in Conrad's Victory
Blind Pew in Treasure Island (this character used to terrify the bejaysus out of me when I was a child)
Prince Valkovsky in Dostoevsky's Humilated and Insulted
Quilp in The Old Cur ...
Thank you, sas227! Now, is anybody game to take on either Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island , or maybe Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy?
... when she learns to read at Kindi next year, she declared last night. Not pirates. Better dust off Black Beauty and put Treasure Island under Mr Bear's nose...)
... Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
6. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
8. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
9. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
10. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
... Under the Sea-Jules Verne
2.Jurassic Park-Michael Crichton
3.Journey to the Center of the Earth-Jules Verne
4.Treasure Island -Robert Louis Stevenson
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... by the Heritage Press, notably in the Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln and in the first Heritage edition of France's Penguin Island , but never more successfully and elegantly than its use here.
... ory.
3. Musical Reads- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. Simple, elegant, life-affirming.
4. Ocean Adventures- Treasure Island by RL Stevenson. Can't believe I never read this before. This was a very fun category.
5. Mystery- The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers. Another new ...
... ffer
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Treasure Island by Stevenson
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (a little long)
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Nothing ...
... ffer
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Treasure Island by Stevenson
The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (a little long)
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Nothing ...
... ure
Pickwick Papers
Middlemarch
The Grapes of Wrath
As I Lay Dying
The End of the Tether
The Golden Bowl
Treasure Island
Ivanhoe
There are many, many more that I am glad I've read and thoroughly enjoyed, but these are the ones I choose here and now. Tomorrow, it may be ...
Treasure Island started me on my love of nautical books.
Followed by the Bounty Triology Mutiny on the Bounty,Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island by Charles Nordhoff. Then I read Beat To Quarters and the whole Hornblower saga.
... Conrad's first. That looks like a good list to work from. I've read:
The Pickwick Papers
Jane Eyre
Adam Bede
Treasure Island
Almeyer's Folly
Sense and Sensibility
... s
Poor Folk
JAne Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Adam Bede
Sketches from a Hunter's Album or Rudin (controversial)
Treasure Island
Almeyer's Folly
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Grey
... Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
822 Kidnapped
823 King Solomon’s Mines on Mount TBR
829 The Death of Ivan Ilyich
831 Treasure Island
840 Anna Karenina
848 Around the World in Eighty Days
862 The Moonstone
863 Little Women
868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on Mount TBR
...
... to her from the books they read to her as she was growing up. She was a "tomboy"; still is, so it is Black Beauty, Treasure Island , Lad, A Dog, Come Home Lassie, etc. I wonder if she will remember when she comes out of this.
... noticed that the amount of discussion on Club Read recently has paled in comparison to the 75ers discussions.
#26: Murr, Treasure Island is a classic that I've never read. I will have to rectify that, and I'll try to get to it, Moby Dick and a few other classics next year (whee, more books ...
... by Mary Shelley
* Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
* Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
* Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
* Villette by Charlotte Bronte
* The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
* Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
... thoughts on Poe. I have never been able to get into him either.
For the ultimate pirate tale, you should of course read Treasure Island.
geneg in
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond (Sep 27, 2009, 3:21pm)
... books that could be washed. Most of the Dick and Jane series for school. This is about the age I took my first shot at Treasure Island and Kidnapped. The Bobbsey Twins. A Child's History of the World and the companion A Child's Geography of the World, read lots of comics, both ...
Treasure Island
... Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde this morning. I wonder why it took me so long to get around to it, as I loved Stevenson's Treasure Island . Dr. Jeckyll actually has a rather violent (for its time) scene that surprised me.
I won't be reading The Wood Wife. I'm behind on Dracula and from ...
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Folio did an edition of Treasure Island with Wyeth's classic illustrations; then they did another edition in the same binding with Phillip Bannister's illustrations (he did many other R.L.S. Folio editions).
... somehow.
Kidnapped - to round out my Stevenson collection, beautifully bound and looks great with Jekyll and Hyde and Treasure Island .
Sadly Aesop's Fables did not ship in this order, but it gives me something to look forward to!
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
... at my house for the last few days. They contained:
A Month in the Country
The Name of the Rose
Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
William Russell, Special Correspondent of the Times
The Scarlet Letter
And still in the post:
The Silk Road
A Nervous Splendour
The Historie ...
... form of transportation: A Reliable Wife. Wait, that’s me! How about a Reliable Car!
Your best friend is: (A)Treasure(s)
You and your friends are: Same Kind of Different as Me
What’s the weather like: A Thousand Splendid Suns (95 two days ago!)
What is the best ...
... favorite form of transportation: A Reliable Wife. Wait, that’s me! How about a Reliable Car!
Your best friend is: (A)Treasure(s)
You and your friends are: Same Kind of Different as Me
What’s the weather like: A Thousand Splendid Suns (95 two days ago!)
What is the best advice ...
LauraBrook, thanks for the rec! Haven't read Treasure Island yet, obviously, but if I like it, your suggestion is the next logical step. :) The "goodly amount of murder" bit sounds promising!
... and though I have yet to read it, it sounds nice and entertaining. It's about Long John Silver and some of the gang from Treasure Island , though it's not a retelling. It's always interesting to see where new authors take old classics when they rework them.
Good luck on the 1010, fellow L ...
... Pirates! In an adventure with communists but the 1st one is still great. You have also reminded me I really need to read Treasure Island !
... O'Brian, Master and Commander
7. Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood
8. Sherwood Smith, Inda
9. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
10. Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
... someone got their wires crossed here?!) Edition. Which one is missing? ----Kidnapped. I suppose I should be thankful that Treasure Island is there and that the previous owner didn't keep Catriona as well.
I'm just wondering if a new thread on missing volumes might be useful. Anybody got a ...
... got their wires crossed here?!) Edition . Which one is missing? ----Kidnapped. I suppose I should be thankful that Treasure Island is there and that the previous owner didn't keep Catriona as well.
I'm just wondering if a new thread on missing volumes might be useful. Anybody got a ...
... or two they want and sell the rest. Imagine The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: You keep Kidnapped and Treasure Island because you've heard of these, and then put the rest in an estate sale. Very common. Back when I was trying to find a 19th century, leather-bound set of ...
... all I can remember. I don't know if we had no other books or just none assigned. It seems to me that we may have also read Treasure Island . Based on that I can't say I have a lot of respect for the 8th grade literary canon. To Kill a Mockingbird may have been out because it was a Southern Juni ...
... a weekend, it being one of the shorter book-CDs I could find on short notice, and from an author I had trusted before (with Treasure Island ). Unfortunately, not all of this story held up well over time. I had to research the Jacobite rebellion to find out what in the world the main characters ...
... I'm so glad you both enjoyed the book!
Crios:
A few suggestions of books in the same vein as The Good Thief would be Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson , Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow, or The Cider House Rules by John Irving.
Brady 4 ...
... Shoes and a bunch of others that are a lot of fun. You might also like something like Around the World in 80 Days, Treasure Island , or The Hobbit.
...
Lost worlds: volume 1 by Clark Ashton Smith
Lost worlds: volume 2 by Clark Ashton Smith
Treasure Island In search of the Indo-Europeans by J.P. Mallory
We have always lived in the castle by Sh ...
Treasure by Clive Cussler
Thornyhold by Mary Stewart
Emerald by Phyllis Whitney
Cygnet by Patricia McKillip
Magyk by Angie Sage
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the whole series is great
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Tale of Two Cities ...
... nd
(5) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
(6) Jane Eyre
(7) The Life of Pi
(8) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(9) Treasure Island
and (10) I haven't read The World According To Garp yet, but I did read another really good Irving book A Prayer For Owen Meany, so that is my ...
... Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
821. The Mayor of Casterbridge
825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
831. Treasure Island Why the hype.. yawn!
840. Anna Karenina
846. Far From the Madding Crowd
853. Middlemarch A tomb but well worth the effort
862. The Moonstone
86 ...
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Treasure Island
Powder Monkey by Paul Dowswell
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (there may be some kissing in the sequel The Land of Silver Apples but I don't remember exactly)
The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce
... and my brothers for an hour or so every night; picture books to begin with, then Enid Blyton's Famous Five, and I remember Treasure Island , Sun on the Stubble and The Island of Sheep from when we were a bit older. Those are some of my favourite childhood memories, and it would be nice to ...
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
Everything But Money by Sam Levenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy
Everything But Money by Sam Levenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
47: Treasure Island - by Robert Louis Stevenson - This book is a classic for a reason - filled with great characters and excitement and told by a master at his craft, what's not to like?
I haven't read Treasure Island but i have read Bloody Jack
I haven't read Anne of Green Gables (it's on the TBR) but I have read Treasure Island
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
... read them at home or at school. Jane Eyre was definately read in my own time, I still have the same book now, along with Treasure Island , Robinson Crusoe, Wuthering Heights, A tree grows in Brooklyn, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Good Earth and so many more. They were part of a Reader' ...
82- Treasure Island
Next on my tbr list was Lord Jim but Treasure Island kept calling my name from Mount tbr. I had only read the sanitized children version before and this was a welcome surprise. I can understand why it's been enjoyed for so long by so many readers.
4/5
Nice haul! All of these are gems--especially Gray's Elegy and Penguin Island . I don't understand the relative lack of recognition for France. Heritage brought out many of his major works in wonderful editions, but he seems relatively neglected these days among English-speakin g readers. (I'm ...
... Pym by Edgar Allan Poe, art by Rene Clarke, 1930, Complete, spine darkened.
I also got a really cool version of Penguin Island by Anatole France, with art by Frank Pape.
... White
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Crime and Punishment
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Little Women
Treasure Island
Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dracula
Many of my favorite books are in this group, Jane Eyre, the Austens, Madame Bovary.
...
... Banville
31) What is your desert island book?
Encyclopedia britannica
32) And... what are you reading right now?
Treasure Island , Moll Flanders and Lord Jim.
... Steinbeck, Hemingway etc.. And way back in the third grade buying my first books with my birthday money Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe.
... -- good for you! A book doesn't need big words to be a great book. I thoroughly enjoyed Captain Blood last year and Treasure Island last month. Please continue to let us know about the simple pleasures you're enjoying.
>31, mckait, LOL -- I agree with you!
I finished The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman, finished reading Treasure Island aloud, and I'm nearly done with Collapse by Jared Diamond.
35. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I read this aloud to the girls and we all loved it. We read the last six chapters in one sitting. You've got to love it when little girls are running through the house singing "Yo, ho, ho and a bottle of rum!"
... D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
20. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
21. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
22. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
24. Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
... classics this way, on audio, the ones I otherwise wouldn't have the patience to finish: Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist, and Treasure Island to name a few.
#63 Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
The Silent Tower by Barbara Hambly
The Tower Treasure by Franklin W. Dixon
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
... her Peers". 48 pages. 1.29.09 +
11. Peacock, Caro. A Dangerous Affair. 303 pages. 2.2.09.
12. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island . 303 pages. 2.4.09.*
13. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. 37 pages. 2.9.09.+
14. Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue: English, and How it Got That Way. 245 pages. 2 ...
... for a remaindered book, when they usually go for about $6. Still, Wahrenbroch's has to make a profit so . . . . .
Treasure Island
1. Where did you get this book? B&N.
2. How much did it cost? $8
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? My RL book club is ...
... for a remaindered book, when they usually go for about $6. Still, Wahrenbroch's has to make a profit so . . . . .
Treasure Island
1. Where did you get this book? B&N.
2. How much did it cost? $8
3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? My RL book club is ...
... it out and read the first chapter. Also still reading Wesley the Owl by Stacy O'Brien, Collapse by Jared Diamond and Treasure Island aloud to the kids.
eta: LOL, AmyLynn. I know my husband has been tempted to do that, too.
... that I didn't want to read it in the next month or so and need a little more time before I can start it.
Reading Treasure Island for my RL book club and John Adams because I love McCullough's books. I'm enjoying Treasure Island more than I expected and John Adams is fabulous.
... in...
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Irresistible Forces by Brenda Jackson *touchstone not working
Treasure Island by Robert Louis
Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice by John Jackson Miller
Hide ...
Silas Marner
The Tin Drum
The Time Machine
Wuthering Heights
Treasure Island
Dracula
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Invisable Man
Tender is the Night
Siddartha
... by Lewis Carroll
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Borders:
Wesley the Owl by Stacey O'Brien (The cover and title caught my attention and then I started reading it and was ...
oh man, Treasure Island SOOOO makes me want to swash my buckles. Lolita taught me something life changing, too- no matter how critically acclaimed a book/movie/musical artist is....if it's gross, it's gross. If I'm uncomfortable with the subject matter, end of story. :)
... from my reading off the 1001 list (too many to mention), I'd have to say that the most influential books for me were: Treasure Island which made me want to swash my buckles when I was a child; To Kill a Mockingbird showed me as a teenager that great literature can also be great reads; Th ...
I just finished Treasure Island and then read The Housekeeper and the Professor which I couldn't put down. It was a small book and I read it non-stop today. It's a quirky little book that might not appeal to everyone, but I loved it.
... Jones, Humphry Clinker, Middlemarch, etc. The standard for first rate is exceptionally high. Although I feel that Treasure Island and some of Stevenson's short works like Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde belong in that company. (Incidentally, the touchstone for Stevenson's ...
I just finished Remembering the Bones and really enjoyed it. Now I'm starting Treasure Island for my 3-generation book club (Nana, Daughter and Granddaughter) because the graphic novel of the same name has just arrived at the library for the youngest member to read.
... during a summer spent on an island in the Gulf of Finland. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am also reading Treasure Island aloud, and it has my girls on the edge of their seats!
I am reading Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. I'm also reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson aloud.
... books illustrated by someone other than the former.
I wouldn't, for instance, put a link to a Wyeth illustration from Treasure Island on Robert Louis Stevenson's author page. Even though the Wyeth illustrations are well-known, I readily think of one without the other.
... Beldon books. Mum and Dad had bought a series of condensed "Childrens classics" from Reader's Digest. From those I read Treasure Island , Robinson Crusoe, The Scarlet Pimpernal, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Little Women, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and the list goes on. It was a ...
... and then shipwreck to being a wanted outlaw in the Scottish highlands alongside his Jacobite companion, Alan Breck. I read Treasure Island for the first time a few years ago and this joins it as another timeless classic for older children.
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52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. The Three Musketeers
54. The Time Machine
55. To Kill a Mockingbird
56. Treasure Island
57. Ulysses
58. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
59. Wuthering Heights
Well, I hope I got all the books, because I wasn't sure about all titles... Most of ...
... by George Orwell
18. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
19. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
20. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jerkyll by Robert Louis Stevenson
22. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
23. The ...
Love that review of Treasure Island - it made me chuckle!
... of free books (mostly Classics) for my Kindle, so I downloaded:
Anna Karenina
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Treasure Island
I also bought the following:
The White Tiger
Housekeeping
Expensive People
49.Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nice, the prototype of pirate adventures. One-legged pirate, check. Talking parrot, check. Meddling cabin boy, check. Noble doctor, check. castaway left on island, check. Evil, if dimwitted pirates, check.
... time, ages ago but can't remember almost anything about them. For example Two Years Holiday and Caesar Cascabel and Treasure Island .
I've never read, but would love to read one day :
Mysterious Island
The Underground City
Around the World in 80 Days (saw the cartoon only:)
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... This is quite lark actually, to reread childhood favorites. I have been setting some aside. All the Big Red books, Treasure Island , Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Heidi, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess and others. But I think I will intersperse them with my more mature reading ...
... or perhaps reading it was meant to have that result.
Dracula has been tagged with "violin". I'm stumped.
Treasure Island Matilda is, or contains, "advice". Should I listen?
... grown up (especially since Kplatypus mentioned two of my favourite childhood adventure novels - The Three Muskeeters and Treasure Island - above), and I think I still have a copy somewhere...
... took the time then to read some great classics such as The Yearling (my favorite), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island , and others that I'd never read before. I'm sure my kids enjoyed hearing those books as much as I enjoyed reading them.
... Steinbeck
11. A Wrinkle in Time- L'Engle
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Kesey
13. Ethan Frome- Wharton
14. Treasure Island - Stevenson
15. The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky
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Classic Novels
1. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
2. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island . 303 pages. 2.4.09.
3. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.09.
4. Vern, Jules. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. ...
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1. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. 105 pages. 1.26.09
2. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island . 303 pages. 2.4.09.
3. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.09.
4. Vern, Jules. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. ...
March
#18: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
2/26/09 - 3/1/09, ***
Reviewed
#19: The Courts of Love by Ellen Gilchrist
3/1/09 - 3/2/09, ***
Reviewed
#20: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3/2/09 - 3/9/09, *****!
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#21: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Dougla ...
7. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (4 stars)
I'm revisiting (sometimes for the first time) some of the books I should have read or read in more detail as a youngster. This is on the 501 Must-Read Books Children's Fiction list. It was an easy read with very memorable characters and ...
... Nesbit, Katherine Paterson, Beatrix Potter, P. L. Travers and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Graphic
187 Time Machine (Graphic Classics) (Graphic Planet): Abridged graphic adaptation of the classic novel The Time Machine. Not a fan of abridged works; this one provides the ...
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Where the Red Fern Grows - we were all sobbing so hard my husband came in asked if this reading was such a good idea
Treasure Island , Hank the Cowdog series, Ransom of Red Chief, Chronicles of Narnia - we read every night and always on road trips.
My boys are grown now - those ...
... but sometimes the knowledge of this other world palls. Maybe I shouldn't have listened to this one while reading Cussler's Treasure which also involved terrorists and conspiracy theories. All in all not a bad book. I guess that it was just a bad time for the reader to explore it.
The ...
I have not read Treasure Island but I have read The Tale of Despereaux
I have never read The Zookeeper's Wife but I have read Treasure Island
34. Treasure by Clive Cussler. Although I usually enjoy Cussler's adventures I was disappointed in this one. It seemed like he had too many irons in the fire for the plot and it could have been 200 pages shorter and been a better book. Almost too corny to be fun.
... The Blind Assassin as well. Not bad! I like The Handmaid's Tale more. I'm also reading Great Expectations and Treasure Island . I'm not sure how I began reading three at a time.. but I like the variety!
... by Deanna Raybourn.
Then there's all the free books! Assassin's Apprentice, Red Mars, His Majesty's Dragon Treasure Island and The World's Greatest Books volume 2.
If you don't hear from me for a while, I'm reading.
I finally finished listening to Treasure Island and I was absolutely delighted! What a wonderful story. I was expected it to be very "English," i.e. wordy and difficult to read. Instead, I got a quick-paced, exciting adventure story. I loved all the characters, even Long John Silver. And it was ...
... Stevenson
90) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
91) The Death of Ivan Ilyich -- Leo Tolstoy
92) Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
93) In a Glass Darkly -- Sheridan Le Fanu
94) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There -- Lewis Carroll
95) ...
... /29/2009
4 Historical settings: More than 100 years ago
1 The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss (1790's) 1/14/2009
2 The Treasure by Iris Johansen (1190's) 2/20/2009
3 - in progress - Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1830's)
5 New-to-me authors:
1 Fault Li ...
"That's where I killed my first goat."
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Am I to answer, then?"
Just finished sailing around Treasure Island in the mid-1700s. I'd never read it before!
(I'm guessing this would be historical fiction, since it was published in 1883.)
... theme in any novel, but they were just dropped in at odd places and it was distracting.
I finished the audio version of Treasure Island . I really enjoyed this and I think I probably liked it better for being an audio version. The reader did a very good job making the story come to life. Th ...
... from Perfume - such an interesting serial killer!
Voldemort from the Harry Potter books
Long John Silver from Treasure Island (most entertaining)
the housekeeper from Rebecca. I can't remember her name. I keep thinking Mrs. Miniver, but I know that isn't right.
I haven't ...
... are:
Alice in Wonderland illustrated by Helen Oxenbury
Pippi Longstocking illustrated by Lauren Child
Treasure Island illustrated by Robert Ingpen
Wind in the Willows illustrated by Charles van Sandwyk (you can only get this one through Folio Society, but it is ...
... back to it since...
Although I picked up a couple of Puffin Classics (new! $8!!!) yesterday, so I think a re-read of Treasure Island might be happening first. (I **loved** that book so much as a kid!)
Glad you liked Ethan Frome too, thanks for the good JE! You said what I wished I ...
... No, wait. I did ever know this. I have some LP audiobooks in the attic, I'm sure. One of the many reasons I dislike Treasure Island , that LP. *chuckles* I remember hearing many fairytale stories as a child, but I'd forgotten that not all of them were on cassettes. The LP audiobooks didn't ...
Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe started my reading career as a boy. I still have very fond memories of both those books. I think the reason I didn't enjoy the Pirates of the Carribean movies much is because I still had the Treasure Island pirates in my mind. Never thought about that 'ti ...
12. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island . 303 pages. 2.4.09.*
Stevenson's classic treasure hunt is a story that will always be remembered in cultural history. Generations of readers can easily relate to Jim's adventures, and will find it easy to navigate through the narrative itself, ...
... Bear is also an artist, and at one time, did a little cover work.
I'd second, that among Stevenson's best known works, Treasure Island absolutely tops the list.
A must for every boy's library:
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm REALLY enjoying listening to Treasure Island by Stevenson. It's thrilling!
... wax so far, but I have made a pact with myself that I will no longer abandon books no matter how tedious. I'm also reading Treasure Island , Inkheart (which is really cool because it motivates me to read other stuff referenced in the story), Let the right one in which is really creepy and ...
... really enjoy the history side of it, as well as how the west keeps supporting dictators there.
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island **
Good book, I had never read it and thought it was about time. A light read, very well written, about pirates, booty, and adventure.
Barack Obama - Th ...
... ago. I'll probably get my mom's bible from when she was a kid. As for the other stuff, there are copies of Peter Pan, Treasure Island , Wind in the Willows, and some other stuff I will probably cause to appear in my room in short order.
I just finished reading an old favorite to my son tonight - Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island .
Okay, so far this year (2009) I have read:
Enid Blyton Castle of Adventure
Enid Blyton Island of Adventure
Donald E. Westlake Don't Ask
Jane Austen Persuasion
February:
My January 999 reading;
Chapter books I read my 5 year old
1. Peter Pan
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. Treasure Island (unabridged classics)
LT recommendations
1. American Gods
2. Neverwhere
Teen fiction/YA
1. Artemis Fowl: Lost Colony, The
2. The Time Paradox
3. InterWorl ...
... so. No more difficult than any other 19th century novel translated to English.
I've stalled on my audio book version of Treasure Island and the January chapters of Gardening in the Prairie Lands, but I should be able to wrap those up this weekend. I need to check my pile of TBRs for this ...
... you recommend? I think that around this house somewhere (I don't have anywhere near all our books catalogued) we also have Treasure Island , Call of the Wild, and White Fang. Oh, yeah, we have The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo which my girls are begging me to read.
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... little while for me to get used to the Scottish accent or dialect, but I do like that in a book. #20 What did you think of Treasure Island ?
--BJ
... of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
101.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
102.Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
103.Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
104.Through the Looking Glass Louis Carroll
105.Little Women ...
... way it does. I think that this book that I have was marketed as young adult and I am guessing it is probably similar to Treasure Island .
Not much help, am I? So I recommend it, but it is not up there with Old Man and the Sea which I loved.
--BJ
ETA I forgot to mention that there are ...
... own it and want to read it, but I rather disliked the other two RL Stevenson books I've read (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island ). It's his writing style I dislike-I think the ideas behind the stories are great, but the execution is painful. I'm not sure why I think I'll like Kidnappe ...
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds
Treasure Island
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
My Brilliant Career
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
Mrs. Miniver
Random Harvest
Lost Horizon
Cheaper By the Dozen
The Handmaid's Tale
Angels and Insects
A Wrinkle in Time
The Engli ...
... Found There, 1970s
22. Middlemarch, 2008
23. Around the World in Eighty Days, 1980s
24. Anna Karenina, 2007
25. Treasure Island , 2005
26. the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, 1970s
27. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, 2008
28. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1980s
29. ...
By the way, readeron, I could not find my copy of Treasure Island to read for the genre challenge, but I did find Kidnapped, so I will read that instead. It looks like it might be a pretty quick read. (I hope.)
--BJ
... yet. I think I will pick one that is not too long because the month is approaching the end. I was thinking of reading Treasure Island for the adventure book. I have never read that before. I was going to maybe read The Count of Monte Cristo but since there might be a group read for ...
... Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
45. Second Nature by Michael Pollan
46: Our Man in Havana - by Graham Greene
47: Treasure Island - by Robert Louis Stevenson
48: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
49: The Scarlet Letter - by Nathaniel Hawthorne
50: The Third Man and the Fallen Idol - ...
... to my grandchildren. I just finished The Coral Island with my grandson not long ago, and we are planning on reading Treasure Island together, also I'm sure they would both enjoy The Wizard of Oz will probaby try that too.
So I guess looking at my list, I get comfort from the books I ...
I felt the same about Treasure Island - it is a great timeless story. I finally got round to reading it a couple of years ago as I noticed that a lot of children's writers enthused about it. I've just read The Coral Island which was published earlier than Treasure Island , and is another great ...
... not a central theme. I really wasn't that impressed with this book.
I'm still working on the audio book version of Treasure Island . I've got some housework to catch up on, so I should make some progress there. I am enjoying this, perhaps more so having it read to me. I'm still ...
... be able to handle the Congolese jungle! Don't think I would, either, but it would make an interesting tale to tell!
#8 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I think I never read this book as a child because it was made into a cartoon with unappealing animation, and it seemed to be ...
... Sentient goo. Marine biologists. Amelia Earhart. Rastafarians from New Jersey. Sounds like fun, right?
Book 95: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Finally! I can finally check this book off. At least it was a heck of a lot better than Robinson Crusoe, which I confused ...
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27. The Kreutzer Sonata
28. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
29. Adventures of Huck Finn
30. Treasure Island
31. Through the Looking Glass
32. War and Peace
33. Little Women
34. Therese Raquin
35. Journey to the Center of the Earth
36. Alice's Adven ...
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27. Lucky by Alice Sebold
28. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
29. The Stories of Devil-Girl by Anya Achtenburg
30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
31. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
32. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
33. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
34. Eclipse ...
... thought I should have some familiarity with this. It was reasonably entertaining but not as good as Robinson Crusoe or Treasure Island - seems much like a combination of the two. I definitely could see what elements William Golding used for his novel though. I'd read this aloud to 10 ...
In addition to reading Emma, I am now listening to Treasure Island , which I downloaded from LibriVox. I don't think I've ever listened to an audio book, but it's pretty nice to have one going while I am fixing dinner. I also do some crocheting and cross-stitching and was inspired to try audio ...
... illustrator has been matched to a subject no one else could do as well. Other examples that come to mind are N.C.Wyeth's Treasure Island , Detmold's Aesop's Fables and Robert Shore's Heart of Darkness.
I mentioned on another thread that one of my favorite Latin American writers is Marian ...
I think I'm going to go with Treasure Island and maybe Shogun or Deliverance.
I finished White Fang and liked it a lot more than Call of the Wild.
... This year, I am determined to finish it!
1. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe
2. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
3. Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly
4. Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
5. Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
6 ...
47 off the list so far this year but I'm trying to make it a round 50 with In Cold Blood, Treasure Island and another thin one from the stack!
I'll not mention how many off the list I read this year which were removed by Mr Boxall and his friends... harummmph...
The first three books on LT under the tag "adventure" are:
Treasure Island by Stevenson
Into Thin Air by Krakauer
The Hobbit?! by Tolkien
... but I'd be interested in reading Shogun because it's been sitting on my bookshelf for a while. The Three Musketeers and Treasure Island are both classics I would like to say I have read.
... Guns of Navarone by MacLean, Alistair
Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael
Trustee from the Toolroom by Shute, Nevil
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Taylor, Robert Lewis
I will have happy memories of curling up on a rainy weekend with Treasure Island . That was a lot of fun. I'm glad The Reluctant Fundamentalist was on the list as it was so thought provoking and wouldn't have been a book I would have picked out on my own.
The one that will stay with me ...
I will have happy memories of curling up on a rainy weekend with Treasure Island . That was a lot of fun. I'm glad The Reluctant Fundamentalist was on the list as it was so thought provoking and wouldn't have been a book I would have picked out on my own.
The one that will stay with me ...
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1. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox √
2. Night Probe √
3. Deep Six √
4. Cyclops √
5. Treasure √
6. Dragon √
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... from the Golden Age, which our favorite publisher has kindly re-issued in recent years: N.C. Wyeth's illustrations for Treasure Island and Edward Detmold's illustrations for Aesop's Fables.
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The White Cascade, the Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
My Father's Secret War
Treasure Island for 2009 Classics Book Club read
Peter Pan for 2009 Classics Book Club read
Hide and Seek with Angels, a Life of J. M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney
Surp ...
Deenie by Judy Blume--I was born with a disability and I was able to connect with Deenie on so many levels.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson--the first chapter book I read on my own and one of the reasons I love reading so much.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Cha ...
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Books from the 1,001 List Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Finished 02/15/09 (also Not My Genre)
* Emma by Jane Austen. Finished 01/08/09 (also Jane Austen)
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3 fragments jean baudrillard (11 december)
4 volupte charles sainte-beuve (28 april-1 may)
5 penguin island anatole france (19 january-20 january)
6 the crazy iris kenzaburo oe (12 august-18 august)
7 open sky paul virilio (19 october-20 october)
8 the ...
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2 brick lane monica ali (1 march- 6 march)
3 moll flanders daniel defoe (20 january-22 january)
4 penguin island anatole france (19 january-20 january)
5 the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian sherman alexie (23 september)
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... enjoyed its energy, even if it was sensationally tragic.
And has anyone else read an old childhood favourite of mine: Treasure Island .
#17 - I had lots of fun with Treasure Island a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I just finished two books on the list. Hideous Kinky was a light read about a hippy mother dragging her two young girls around Morrocco. Quite disappointing. I listened to an interview with the author who said she was ...
#17 - I had lots of fun with Treasure Island a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I just finished two books on the list. Hideous Kinky was a light read about a hippy mother dragging her two young girls around Morrocco. Quite disappointing. I listened to an interview with the author who said she was ...
#17 - I had lots of fun with Treasure Island a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I just finished two books on the list. Hideous Kinky was a light read about a hippy mother dragging her two young girls around Morrocco. Quite disappointing. I listened to an interview with the author who said she was ...
#17 - I had lots of fun with Treasure Island a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I just finished two books on the list. Hideous Kinky was a light read about a hippy mother dragging her two young girls around Morrocco. Quite disappointing. I listened to an interview with the author who said she was ...
#17 - I had lots of fun with Treasure Island a few weeks ago. Enjoy!
I just finished two books on the list. Hideous Kinky was a light read about a hippy mother dragging her two young girls around Morrocco. Quite disappointing. I listened to an interview with the author who said she was ...
Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson.
... time I do a category challenge--that one sounds like a lot of fun. I will be interested to see what else you pick. I love Treasure Island but haven't read Blue Latitudes. This year I'm reading Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic for my Civil War category.
I'm very anxious to see what ...
Now I don't feel like a fool. Wth me it was a copy of Treasure Island that I bought while in the third grade (1959). It was a cheap softcover book that I saved my pennies to buy. No matter how battered or beat up it became. I'd glue, tape, sew it back together. I bought that book in Kittery Maine ...
Thoroughly enjoyed Treasure Island . Rolicking good fun, and I was surprised by the richness of the dialogue. Gave up on Robinson Crusoe which was not nearly as entertaining in comparison.
Did not enjoy Wide Sargasso Sea. The concept was interesting but it was too heavy and forced
The ...
... In the Land of Invisible Women by Qanta Ahmed
9. House Calls By Dogsled by Keith Billington
Ocean Adventures
1.Treasure Island
2.Blue Latitudes
3.Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish
4.20000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
5.Rowboat in a Hurricane
6.Dange ...
... Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
The Devil Wears Prada: A Novel
Treasure Box
Treasure Island
A Wrinkle in Time
Earthborn (Homecoming, Vol 5)
Earthfall (Homecoming, Vol 4)
The Call of Earth
Alvin Journeyman (Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 4) ...
... read it. The same goes for The Shipping News. I've made several abortive attempts and it's bored me silly every time.
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Old Man and the Sea
Kon Tiki
Robinson Crusoe
A High Wind in Jamaica
The Pearl
Voyage of the ...
Finished Treasure Island as another extra credit for the 1,001 Books You Must Read.
66. Treasure Island
It's not Pirates of the Caribbean, but it will suffice in the story department. Many pirate references that are familiar to all. Found out more the origin of Long John Silver, peg legs, talking parrots, pieces of eight, rum and every other pirate reference known to man.
G ...
... others and the constant search forever
Currently Reading:
Breaking Dawn
Sundays at Tiffany's
On Writing
Treasure Island
When I was fairly young I read Treasure Island .
For the first time in my young little life, I understood how my mother could get lost in her books the way she did; she'd be a million miles away from everything.
Pel and the Pirates landed on Treasure Island . They found The Message in the Hollow Oak. After digging deep Under the Persimmon Tree they discovered The Gold of Troy.
... suggestions from Sharon O'Brien's book Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice,, Cather's most loved childhood books: 1895 Treasure Island ; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer; Robinson Crusoe; The Count of Monte Cristo; Otto of the Silver Hand.
In addition, O'Brien names ...
... strong>
1. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
2. The Pirates! in an Adventure with Ahab
3. Treasure Island
4. Under the Black Flag
5. Empire of Blue Water
6. Raiders and Rebels
7. Captain Blood
8. Jefferson's War
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Treasure Island
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The Crying of Lot 49
All Quiet on the Western Front
Portnoy's Complaint
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Treasure Island
The Hobbit
Around the World in 80 Days
All last week I was craving a pirate story. Guess the beach does that to you. Anyway, I'm starting Treasure Island and hopefully getting further along in The Elegant Universe.
I regret that I have never enjoyed Treasure Island . I just can't get into it. However, I can't tell you how many times I have re-read Louisa May Alcott.
The person below me is up way too early, due to the heat.
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Otherwise, I absolutely love reading a book to a group of kids, or re-reading a book I read as a youngster (last summer -- Treasure Island ), or if I get interested some facet of books for children. I have several books in my library related to literature for children.
TPBM has read the ...
The DISNEY version of Treasure Island ,,,,am i correct here?....Erroll Flynn inCaptain Blood...and did anyone ever make a movie of High Wind in Jamaica....about some British Brats kidnapped by Pirates...the book is fantastic, by the way
30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Started Lord of the Flies last night haven't read this one since middle school should be interesting.
I have to say I truley enjoyed Treasure Island I can not believe that it took me this many years to read of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver ...
30. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Started Lord of the Flies last night haven't read this one since middle school should be interesting.
I have to say I truley enjoyed Treasure Island I can not believe that it took me this many years to read of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver ...
28. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
29. The Stories of Devil-Girl by Anya Achtenberg
Just started on Treasure Island .
I think I will pick up The Lovely Bones next time im out ata book store thanks for the recomendation.
... a few more of Ellis Parker Butler's funny short stories. Anyone interested in an old fashioned boys story like Treasure Island might like to try the books by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Cough. The only one I've had time to finish was Deadman's Rock.
At one time I created a list ...
... are the Harry Potter series, read by Jim Dale. Another thing we've done is get some of the classics like Tom Sawyer or Treasure Island that have a broad appeal.
You might want to take along 2 or 3 choices in case one doesn't appeal to everyone.
Have a fun trip.
... interested in this genre to begin with, in particular The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (and, of course, Treasure Island ).
I also loved the first few of the Bloody Jack series by Louis A. Meyer. The later books are still enjoyable, but I don't feel as strongly about ...
whoopsie - double-post.
... Spiderwick Chronicles, Gossip Girl, etc. You'd also put Black Beauty, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Treasure Island and A Wrinkle in Time in this category. Even your Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books fall into this realm. There are a million others - the key is that ...
... Simon Clark
Rating 4/5
48. The High Lord (Black Magician Trilogy) by Trudi Canavan
Rating 5/5
49. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Audio)
Rating 4/5
50. Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Rating 3/5
51. The Voyage of ...
Even though we don't have the room.... or the money....I got the following
From the local B & N:
Treasure Island
Oliver Twist
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(They were having a great sale)
Have gotten this week:
"Porto Bella Gold" by A.D. Howden Smith (the idea of a preqal to Stevenson's Treasure Island writen 50 odd years later is just to tempting to pass up)
The Bedford Incident by Mark Rascovich
Under Enemy Colors by S. Thomas Russell
Captain Bligh and Mi ...
... by Jean Marzollo & Walter Wick
Master of Many Treasures by Mary Brown
The Treasure is the Rose by Julia Cunningham
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
... with their other titles Kidnapped, Catriona, etc., and reprint the classic N.C. Wyeth illustrations, as they did for Treasure Island or commission new ones from Philip Bannister, whose illustrations for the 2 above mentioned books are just as masterful as his ones for James' The Ambassado ...
My thirst for adult reading happened at age eleven when we read Treasure Island in the sixth grade. Up to that point Nancy Drew and books by Louisa May Alcott satisfied. A Tale of Two Cities assigned eighth grade reading at age thirteen was decidedly violent. Classroom discussion about ...
...
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Beowulf
There are so many more I'd love to add....
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Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Beowulf
There are so many more I'd love to add....
... s.
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
3. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.
4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
5. Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud.
6. Magyk by Angie Sage.
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.
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2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
3. The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.
4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
5. Buried Fire by Jonathan Stroud.
6. Magyk by Angie Sage.
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne.
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I've finished Treasure Island which was a rollicking good yarn and I'm now reading The Island of Dr Moreau. The narrator is rather uptight!
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So you're more of a Spaceballs philosopher(i.e., "evil will always win because good is dumb")?
My $0.02 on Treasure Island : I found it enjoyable enough, but it isn't a favorite title. Of course, I love love LOVE Muppet Treasure Island . *grin*
#179 hackmac - I had trouble with Treasure Island too. I read it a few months ago and was bored silly. This is one of the great pirate books of all time? The crew overcomes the pirates by virtue of their moral superiority! Gah! What a wussy battle tactic!
... best books I've read (in terms of story and appeal).
Anyway, I can't remember resenting a YA book more than I resented Treasure Island . I hated it so much I can't even remember the author. It was a required reading back when I was little, and I really thought it was the dullest book ever. Ma ...
... is that I would have liked some of the stories to be more fleshed-out. Some of them are in a way, in other books (Treasure Island and the strange case of doctor jekyll and mr hyde are the two most obvious inspirations) and I suppose what I got from this book is the importance of ...
How about Treasure Island ?
5 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I bet if I was a 12-year-old boy living while Stevenson was writing, I would have loved this book. Sadly, I am not. It was mildly entertaining, at best.
... children's stories were also one of the things that instilled a love of reading in me - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island and, from the early 20th century, The Wind in the Willows were early favourites read to me as bedtime stories.
I detest Jane Austen, which I know is ...
I read the Wide Sargasso Sea over the weekend. A very good, fast read. Also, a little way into Treasure Island . Quite readable so far.
... From the Underground (#871)
34) Little Women (#869)
35) Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (#969)
Currently Reading : Treasure Island
... through War of the Worlds and really enjoying it, particularly the descriptions of the Martians. Next I intend to read Treasure Island . I've read that it is a bit boring.
... further I get into it. Unfortunately, my knowledge of pirate lingo is kind of limited and it's been 34 years since I read Treasure Island . I know exactly how long it's been because I read it out loud to my son when we brought him home from the hospital after he was born. I doubt that he ...
... thinking specifically of the old Puffin Classics. Stuff like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island . The double covers for Harry Potter never materialized in the U.S., so I don't think about it I guess.
The store I was at had (for kids fiction anyway ...
Treasure Island
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
Play like a Man, Win like a Woman
At least I know that I'll enjoy the first two.
I have fiction separated in modern fiction and "old fiction" (the classics, like Treasure island ). Historical texts (Shakespeare, Augustine, Plato etc.) are another category. Then according to interest: Travel, Antiques, Art, Museological books (seperated according to country, museum, exhibit, ...
... Dead Wicked with weird page-cuttings
Elizabeth Goudge's The White Witch (no relation to Narnia)
A ratty old copy of Treasure Island
A glorified fanfic, Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights
Numerous classics that everyone who cares already has :-P
So what books have been ...
... motivated. If you're not, I think it would be a drag.
Glad to hear that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is good. I thought Treasure Island was indeed boring. Also, I was kind of discouraged because it's been read by kids since it was written (I think), and I found it a laborious read and the ...
... Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- easy to read, entertaining, and an excellent source for cultural/literary references. I haven't read Treasure Island yet, so I can't compare the two. I hear TI is kind of boring though?
... I've also come up with Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Jyde.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings about this one. I didn't much like Treasure Island when I read it a couple of years ago, but this one is short, so it shouldn't be too painful. I think the premise sounds fascinating, but I have me doubts ...
... Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
20. R.L Stevenson - The strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde
21. R.L. Stevenson - Treasure Island
22. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
23. Bram Stoker - Dracula
24. George Orwell - 1984 (my year of birth...)
25. George Orwell - Dierenboerderij ( Ani ...
Treasure Island ?
8. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson. I tried to read this as a child, but I could not appreciate it at such a young age. As a youngish adult, this is not the case. This is a very exciting adventure story and it does not lose anything with age. Showing pirates for what they were ...
The Secret Garden
Treasure Island
Pet Cemetary
The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon
The Princess Bride
Jitterbug Perfume
The Golden Compass and The Amber Spyglass from His Dark Materials
So many books have stuck with me long after I have read them!
I second The Hobbit and Treasure Island . I also enjoyed Kidnapped at around that age myself.
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
A Wrinkle In Time ( I know there is a series, but this book stands on its own.)
I read the following to my twin boys between the ages of 8 and 11, their current age.
Treasure Island by Robert Loius Stevenson
Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
( They have since completed the LOTR trilogy on their own - no way I was reading that to them!!)
...
... of it? I can't remember if this is the main part of the story, or just a small part of it, like at the beginning. Is this Treasure Island ? I don't have a copy readily available to check.
At first I thought it was The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but I'm ...
Treasure Island was a cool shorter adventure story. I found a lot of the interaction between the pirates really interesting, and it's a really fast read. Now I've started Rabbit Redux by John Updike, and I'm really liking that so far.
Just Finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood which was great. Next up is Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I don't know that Treasure Island is anything more than a good adventure story for boys and men. I don't see much opportunity for girls and women to identify with it, unless their goal in life is to be a pirate.
I look at Treasure Island as a kind of Little Women for boys.
Oh, and the book that I truly hated the most, loathed, was Treasure Island . I still have refused to reread this, though I admit that I possibly could find some merit in it now.
The Princess Bride was probably one of the funniest books I have read! I also love The Catcher in the Rye and Treasure Island .
... The Wizard of Oz isn't on the list. However, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass both are. As well as Treasure Island and Little Women, which are often given to children.
... be able to read 64 (or even 56 if I cross list eight) in a year, but why not give it a try?
I 1001 Books
1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Feb 2008)
2. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (April 2008)
3. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (D ...
There's nothing wrong with a dose of the classics,
Treasure Island by stevenson
Tales Of the North by London
Captains courageous, Wee Willie Winkie and Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
At that age and grade (4th to 5th) I read and enjoyed the following;
The dog who wouldn't be
by Farley Mowat
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Steveson
Tales of The North By Jack London and Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
I agree with the abridged Illustrated Classic versions to introduce young readers to the great works, they (the books) whet the readers' appitites for quality literature, and help create a quality base for future reading without being overwhelming; they also provide touchstones for the current ...
... I got it from the library and it was one of those old hadcover books that was well-worn and comfortable. That book and Treasure Island were instrumental to my love of reading.
I received The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton and Misreadings by Umberto Eco in the mail today from bookswap.
I also found a good copy of 1984 by George Orwell yesterday and bought it...
Does anyone else wonder why classics (including modern classics) have such crap ...
... with that day at the Gathering which goes on forever and ever and I'm thinking oh gosh move on already!
I'm also reading The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton. I'm reading it for old time’s sake because those books were a favourite of mine when I was a child and I got it for free from ...
... Travels by Jonathan Swift with an introduction by David G. Pitt
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Plato's Rebuplic translated by B. Jowett
The Greek Philosophers by Rex Warner
... the following from the library sales yesterday:
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
1984 by George Orwell
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Total cost $1.
CR (current reading): The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
JF (just finished): Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
LF2 (looking forward to): Specials by Scott Westerfeld
I'm up to the last 25 pages of Treasure Island , but I look at the cover and am repulsed by it. It hasn't got enough exciting action and dialogue.
I'm sure I will be glad when it is completed. Hopefully I will get there very soon. The start of the book is good though.
I made the exact same comment about Treasure Island when I read it a few years ago. I had just finished a term at university full of really dense reading, and I thought Treasure Island was going to be a breeze. But I found it a bit of a slog. So, you're not alone.
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm actually finding Treasure Island slow going. I'm not sure why because it's a children's book. I got into it but then I sort of dropped away once they actually got to the island and described so much about one small boats journey towards the actual ship. It's odd because I read Anna Karenin ...
So, what do you think, Urquhart, David Copperfield? (amazing Treasure Island by RLS comes up when I touchstone David Copperfield. Go figure.
... through a Dickens immersion, but still have some on my TBR list. Great Expections is also one of my favorites, as is David Copperfield . I slogged through the weepy Old Curiosity Shop, mainly because it had been such a success when it was published. Not high on my recommended list. I ...
... through a Dickens immersion, but still have some on my TBR list. Great Expections is also one of my favorites, as is David Copperfield . I slogged through the weepy Old Curiosity Shop, mainly because it had been such a success when it was published. Not high on my recommended list. I ...
... Bunnicula books were particular favorites. Some of the last books he read to us were Watership Down, Tom Sawyer, and Treasure Island . Watership Down was a particular favorite and ended up being read twice!
Unfortunately it doesn't want a touchstone.
... Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale
28. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
29. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
30. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
31. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
32. The Ki ...
... Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J. K. Rowling
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hoseeni
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
The Old Wives Tale Arnold Bennett
... by Sebastian Faulks
3. Middlemarch by George Eliot
4. The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
5. (tie) Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
(tie) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
NONFICTION
1. Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell ...
The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton?
ETA with Jack, Diana, Lucy, Philip and Kiki the Cockatiel? Set in Cornwall?
One of my favourite reads as a kid.
...
1. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1. The sea by John Banville
2. The glass castle by Jeanette Wells
3. The time machine by H.G. Wells
There was a three way tie for the top spot - what beautiful stories.
... little bookshelf in the classroom. And I can also remember reading Far Centaurus by A E Van Vogt back then--as well as The Time Machine and A Wrinkle In Time. When I signed up for the Science Fiction Book Club in 1970 I got the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, A Treasury Of Great Science ...
... not 19th century), I was much better able to understand the characters when they spoke. I used to be a big fan of Treasure Island when I was about 10, and this had a pretty similar ring to it. It was definitely enjoyable, as far as what I like to think of as "Victorian adventure ...
>43 strandbooks, I too found David Copperfield to be an excellent read, and one which successfully got me back into Dickens after a very long spell away from his works. If you haven't done so already, I highly recommend reading Nicholas Nickleby :)
Thanks for starting a new thread! I'm going to finish David Copperfield today. I'm excited that there are so many Dickens on the list because I have really enjoyed this one and Tale of Two Cities.
Today I'm going to the library to pick up The Old Wives Tale (this one has been number one in ...
I'm still working on David Copperfield I plan to finish it today. (Not sure why the touchstone says Treasure Island...) I've really enjoyed it, but I think Dickens is one of those authors that I will read over years to come. I couldn't pick up another of his books soon after finishing one. By the ...
Well of my list for September, I've read:
Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
I'm reading:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (audio)
And I'm replacing:
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
with ...
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
... weeks, I shamefully have finally finished another book. However it is a long one that I do feel good about completing.
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Tane in The Green Dragon : What is your definition of 'Classic' Science Fiction? (Sep 11, 2007, 4:18pm)
...
Anyway, that's what it means to me, make of that what you will :-)
*for some reason the Time Machine tag defaulted to Treasure Island ???
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
19. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
20. Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
21. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
If you haven't yet read The Pursuit of Happyness, you need to! I loved every minute of it. Much better than alot of "rags to riches" tales out there.....
I've had a book-heavy weekend. I finished Treasure Island , which I wish I had read when I was a kid. It was such fun--I immediately tossed it to my daughter. Then I read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, which I thought was very effective, and The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, which ...
Swallows and Amazons by Ransome;
Island of Adventure , Mountain of Adventure, etc., by Enid Blyton;
Little House on the Prairies series by Wilder;
Nancy Drew by Keene;
The Hardy Boys *high fives, Tropics*
Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery;
Narnia Chronicles;
Nigel Tranter ...
... Ilyich (depressing but a really good short novel about death and dying)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Time Machine
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Turn of the Screw (short book, but I didn't like it much)
Heart of Darkne ...
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
I am reading Treasure Island on DailyLit. I'm not sure how I missed this one growing up!
... in your hovel?" "Say, you wouldn't happen to have any kids that are a little more crippled or anything, would you?"
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Pirates! Who doesn't love pirates!
93. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Subtitled: 'An Account of American Except ...
Ship of Fools, Sebastian Brandt
Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome
Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
Treasure Island , Robert Louis Stevenson
Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward Latimer Beach
Bloody Jack
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Peter Pan
... same way that so many of the books she quoted refused to appeal to me. There is no question that Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Treasure Island and The Jungle Book are well-written, excellent books, but I find them all repulsive and always have, and there's nothing I can do about it.
59. The Bo ...
Wind in the Willows, Rabbit Hill, Treasure Island , and Pinochio are just a few. LOVED them all as an adult.
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Ben Gunn R. F. Delderfield
The Privateer Josephine Tey
The Pyrates George MacDonald Fraser
Peter Pan James M. Barrie
... GREAT FIGURES IN HISTORY MARIE CURIE GN $14.95
MANGA LITERARY CLASSICS LITTLE WOMEN GN $14.95
MANGA LITERARY CLASSICS TREASURE ISLAND GN $14.95
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... ciety.
For my part, I'm about fifty pages into Kidnapped. Not much has happened yet, but I already like it better than Treasure Island .
... Islands of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia by James Oseland
The Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H G Wells
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
#25
I did that all the time too! My favorite was being the additional stowaway/cabingirl in Treasure Island . :-)
I have an edition of Treasure island in English, followed by a Chinese translation. Even if I could read the Cinese version, I would definitely combine this book with the other editions.
... BOOK(s): Aside from anything at all by the above authors, Anything Can Happen, The Egg and I, A Gift from the Sea, Treasure Island , Bible
FAVORITE DRINK: Iced tea, margarita, coffee
FAVORITE CHEESE: Irish cheddar, Bleu, Brie
FAVORITE CHOCOLATE: Anything dark
FAVOURITE SPELLING OF FAV ...
... in the scary sense, I'm just a total whimp when it comes to violence.
I liked the reviews I've read for Flyaway and Treasure Island . I thought I had read Treasure Island before, but now that I've read the review, I'm not so sure I actually did. I didn't see that there were any other ...
Treasure Island is read and reviewed
I get to choose for Inigo again, The bafut beagles for a change of direction.
Awaiting the next to finish (or a new player) to choose for me.
Why not just say soemthing like my review can be found in the reviews for Treasure Island ? If someone wants to read the review I'm sure there will be plenty of people who can show them how.
BTW, reading_fox, I just tested your scheme for including links from message posts. Thanks for putting ...
Reading_Fox howse about doing a reading/review of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Check back when you've put the review out.
There was one called Jim Hawkins and the Curse from Treasure Island by Francis Bryan that was really good.
I had no idea anyone had written prequels/sequels to Treasure Island much less that they were any good. I'm so glad you let us know!
I'll keep an eye out for them.
... texts, unless it was blindingly clear from the entry that it was an abridgement. I suspect many of the editions of Treasure Island , Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are abridged for young readers, but just because the title includes something like "Young Rea ...
Thanks! I had no idea that there was related material to Treasure Island (outside of four hundred movie versions). I know people have also written sequels & stuff for Peter Pan, but I've heard they're all either Disneyfied or political so I haven't read them.
... Under the Black Flag: the Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly.
For fiction, Treasure Island and Peter Pan are kind of the classics... I also like The Angel's Command (sequel to Castaways of the Flying Dutchman), and supposedly the third Bloody ...
... And I was a bit ambivalent about Piratica but I loved the title and the cover...
That one probably merits a reread.
Treasure Island is a given. And I've fallen madly in love with Sid Meier's Pirates! computer game. My boyfriend and I play it obsessively with me as navigator, gunner, and ...
... 1717, to the present Year 1724. (ok, the title is much longer but I thought I'd spare you all) and The Princess Bride. And Treasure Island , obviously :-)
But Johnson is my absolute top recommended book (and enough of his pirates are made up that I still consider it fiction)...
I wrote a 20 ...
I completely agree. I was just upset it took me so long to get around to.
10. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
... PBS is showing the Masterpiece Theater version this weekend. Plus it's an awesome read. I'm not as fond of it as I am of Treasure Island , of course, but that's ok.
Has anybody read David Balfour or Catriona? Those are apparently the sequels, but I've never seen them anywhere. Anybody ...
Kidnapped and Treasure Island are very much adventure stories as is The Master of Ballantrae and that was Stevenson's intent. Kenilworth and Ivanhoe were by Sir Walter Scott not Stevenson, but your point is taken #7. You could also include Robinson Crusoe or even Gulliver' Travels. ...
... wrote nearly a dozen boys adventures, including the Leatherstocking Tales, The Red Rover, and The Pilot. What about Treasure Island , or David Balfour, or Kidnapped, or Ivanhoe, or Kenilworth, do they belong here? Hermann Melville, always one to experiment with genres wrote an ...
49. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters - library
50. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - electronic
51. Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur by P. Craig Russell - library
52. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - seller
53. To Light A Candle by Mercedes Lackey and Ja ...
... The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, which I'm enjoying quite a bit, and I've just begun Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson as an e-book.
I will add Treasure Island , Robin Hood, and Pinocchio
... to reading paragraphs seemingly overnight. At a discount store, I found a set of old-fashioned children's classics such as Treasure Island , Peter Pan, and such and he has enjoyed every one. I like that because I believe everyone should have at least a glancing familiarity with the ...
... Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Princess Ashley
The Catcher in the Rye
The Secret Garden
The Wind and the Willows
Treasure Island
Black Beauty
The Hobbit
Alice in Wonderland
Sula
Around the World in 80 days
Sing-Song
When We Were Very Young
The Wonderful Wizard ...
... difference?
My last adventure was sparked by the "Is the Aldous Huxley issue one of these???" thread. I followed the the Treasure Island link to Robert Louis Stevenson and discovered that he had been combined with Stevenson, James Stevenson and others. I've tried separating all ...
I have a copy of After Many a Summer Dies the Swan which keeps linking to Island . It shows up in my catalog as a separate work. When listed by title, it's in 'A's and Island in in 'I's. I even deleted it and entered it manually with the same result.
I also saw that the touchstone is not ...
... favorites we read for ourselves.
We also liked The Swiss Family Robinson and of course Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped. In fact, anything about adventures at sea fascinated us: Call It Courage, The Dark Frigate, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, and Jack London ...
#1 1984
#100 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
10% St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters
and lots of unshared. The one actually appearing at the end is The Silent Rose by Kasey Mars because it was added most recently.
And the touchstone seems to indicate that St. P ...
We just finished reading Treasure Island and my son loved it. He wanted to know if there was a sequel! He has picked out Peter Pan to read next. I'm sure that he will love it.
My girls are little yet, so we still read alot of picture books. I find their attention spam isn't long enough ...
... Editions
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
White Fang by Jack London
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Six brand ...
...
First Term at Malory Towers - Mere Christianity.
White Boots - Siddhartha
Ballet Shoes - Gravity's Rainbow
Treasure Island - Agile Web Development with Rails
Alice in Wonderland - Systematic Theology (actually, that list is FULL of theology and similar, which is 'curiouse ...
I'm working on Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
So far it's great. My only other exposure was the Disney version.
... would be three of them, for instance) while with others I sometimes wonder why RD even bothered. "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island " might be typical examples of those. Although the Frank Godwin illustrations are quite nice in their own way, I still can't help thinking I would have much ...
... Poppins
Tom Sawyer
A Little Princess
Alice in Wonderland
Swiss Family Robinson
Robin Hood
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
A little more recent (20th century), but still classics:
Matilda (and many other Roald Dahl books)
The Saturdays (and the rest of the series)
...
... Call It Courage. Closely following that were Kipling's Captains Courageous, London's The Sea Wolf, Stevenson's Treasure Island , and The Dark Frigate by Charles Hawes.
I went through the usual stages: Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki, Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, Dana's Two Yea ...
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