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Here be literary treasure, Jim lad; Critic's choice The next classic tale to add to your Children's Golden Library hardback collection is the swashbuckling Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, available from Monday with your Daily Mail for j

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20031010
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Byline: MAX HASTINGS

TREASURE ISLAND

by Robert Louis Stevenson

WILKIE COLLINS'S The Moonstone may have laid claim to being the first detective story, but Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, first published in 1883, bids fair to have been the first thriller. It awakened in generations of schoolboys a lust for adventure which has never faded.

The tale is told through the eyes of young Jim Hawkins, whose widowed mother keeps the Admiral Benbow, an inn on the Cornish smuggling coast in the mid-18th century. Her only lodger is a maudlin, drunken old pirate, who ...

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