Robert louis stevenson

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Treasure Island
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 
Level 2 
 
Retold by Ann Ward 
Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter 

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Pearson Education Limited 
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ISBN 0 582 46828 0 
Treasure Island first published in 1883 
This adaptation first published by Penguin Books 1995 
Published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited and Penguin Books Ltd 1998 
This edition first published 2000 
Text copyright © Ann Ward 1995 
Illustrations copyright © Victor Ambrus 1995 
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Contents 
page 
Introduction v
Chapter 1 Jim Hawkins’ Story I 
1
Chapter 2 Dr Livesey’s Story 
18
Chapter 3 Jim’s Story II 
22
Activities
35

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Introduction 
‘Tomorrow I’m going to Bristol,’ said Mr Trelawney. ‘I’m going 
to buy a ship and find sailors. Jim, you and Dr Livesey are going to 
come with me to look for the treasure!’ 
 
Jim Hawkins works in his father’s inn by the sea. One day an old 
sailor comes to stay. He watches the sea and the ships. He is ill. 
He is afraid. But what - or who - is he afraid of? 
Very soon Jim understands, because the old man has a map. A 
lot of people are interested in that map - and some of them are 
very dangerous people. Jim Hawkins is going to meet them when 
he sails in the Hispaniola to Treasure Island. It will be a journey 
with many difficulties . . . 
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scot-
land and began writing when he was a boy. He finished his first 
book when he was sixteen. 
He went to many different countries in his life. He was often 
dangerously ill and he wanted to find a place with warm weather 
where he could live and do his writing. In 1888, he went by ship 
to the Pacific islands, and after 1890 he lived on the island of 
Samoa, with his wife, mother and son. The Samoans called him 
‘Tusitala’ - ‘the story-teller’. 
He wrote many different books and stories. Treasure Island 
(1883) is his most famous book but Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 
(1886) is also very well-known. Stevenson died in 1894 on 
Samoa. 
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