Download or read book Treasure Island written by Sara Levine and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure: “A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent” (The New York Times). When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold? Convinced that Stevenson’s book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she’d originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice—“insane, hilarious, and irreverent” (Alice Sebold). “Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.” —Library Journal “A hoot.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Treasure Island and The Ebb Tide written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where 'X' marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold. Setting sail with his friends on the ship Hispaniola to recover the treasure, Jim soon realizes that he's not the only one who knows about the hoard. Suddenly he is thrown into a world of treachery, mutiny, castaways and murder and, at the centre of it all, is the charming but sinister Long John Silver, who will stop at nothing to grab his share of the loot... The Ebb-Tide, a short novel published the year of Stevenson's death, is also a rollicking seafaring adventure, narrating the voyage of a stolen ship whilst exploring such themes as imperialism, violence, dishonesty, Christianity and corruption. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Download or read book The Art of Treasure Island written by Eugen Neuhaus and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasure Island and Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

Download or read book Treasure Planet written by Jeff Kurtti and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go "behind the sails" on an intergalactic treasure hunt in this thrilling new animated space adventure by Walt Disney Pictures. A futuristic twist on one of the greatest adventure stories ever told, Treasure Planet follows Jim Hawkins's fantastic journey across a parallel universe aboard a glittering space galleon. Bug great dangers lie ahead when Jim discovers that his trusted mentor, the cyborg cook John Silver, is actually a scheming pirate with mutiny on his mind. Legends of pirate treasure and pirate terror, the lore of literary pirates, and a look at the loot of a thousand worlds are all featured in this richly illustrated volume that will be treasured by buccaneers of all ages. Discover the film's evolution and the development of its characters, weaponry, and technology, as well as exploring the interesting histories of actual pirates who sailed the seven seas. Part techno-log, part field guide, this book is brimming with diagrams, gadgets, and gizmos, fun facts, and fascinating anecdotes.

Download or read book Under the Wide and Starry Sky written by Nancy Horan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank comes a much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.” Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales. Praise for Under the Wide and Starry Sky “A richly imagined [novel] of love, laughter, pain and sacrifice . . . Under the Wide and Starry Sky is a dual portrait, with Louis and Fanny sharing the limelight in the best spirit of teamwork—a romantic partnership.”—USA Today “Powerful . . . flawless . . . a perfect example of what a man and a woman will do for love, and what they can accomplish when it’s meant to be.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Horan’s prose is gorgeous enough to keep a reader transfixed, even if the story itself weren’t so compelling. I kept re-reading passages just to savor the exquisite wordplay. . . . Few writers are as masterful as she is at blending carefully researched history with the novelist’s art.”—The Dallas Morning News “A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.”—The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Treasure Island written by Disney and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson."

Download or read book Treasure Island Illustrated written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal children's classic of pirates, hidden treasure, and adventure on the high seas. This illustrated edition of TREASURE ISLAND features 17 paintings by N.C. Wyeth and more than 40 drawings by Louis Rhead.

Download or read book The Art of Loish written by Lois van Baarle and published by 3D TOTAL PUB. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the world of digital artist Lois van Baarle, a.k.a. Loish, in this high-quality collection of her most beautiful work.

Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SQUIRE Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand- barrow -- a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!'

Download or read book Still Just Kidding written by Cassandra Calin and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first printed collection of comics by web comic sensation Cassandra Calin.

Download or read book Disney Pirates The Definitive Collector s Anthology written by Michael Singer and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You believe in pirates, of course?" Walt Disney once asked on a Disneyland television program. . . . Disney Pirates: The Definitive Collector's Anthology delves behind-the-scenes across ninety years of Disney film, television, and park history. Pirates have captured people's imaginations for centuries, and Walt Disney believed in pirates as a source of great popular entertainment. Walt's very first all live-action feature film was based upon Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and even before that, he selected J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, in which pirates figure so prominently, as a key feature-length animated film for his studio. Years later, Pirates of the Caribbean opened in Disneyland just months after Walt had passed away, making it one of the last Disney theme park attractions in which he was personally involved. That attraction ultimately spawned similar versions at Disney parks around the world, one of the most successful series in motion picture history with the five Pirates of the Caribbean films, and a vast themed land at Shanghai Disneyland called Treasure Cove--celebrating the entirety of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an abridged and annotated version of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1883; it is part of a series called 'Assisted Reading of Classics' designed for beginner-level ESL students. In this series, the student is assisted in reading with footnotes where the difficult words or phrases are defined in English and translated into French.

Download or read book ArtFolds Sun written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ArtFolds book is a hardcover book that is transformed into a unique paper sculpture merely by folding pages, based on our exclusive, patent-pending instructions. The process is fun and easy and takes surprisingly little time, making it as appropriate for children as it is for adults. Each Classic Edition, with its embossed cover and color-edged pages, is based on a much-loved classic work of fiction. ArtFolds: Sun, readers will enjoy Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!” The inspiration for countless pirate tales, Treasure Island, written in 1881, tells the spine-tingling adventure story of 13-year-old Jim Hawkins and his quest to claim long-hidden pirate gold before the pirates get to it themselves. In possession of a pirate map, on which X marks the spot, Jim brings readers along with him as he sets sail on the Hispaniola, braving mutinies and murders as he seeks the riches that will raise his family out of poverty. After reading, you can fold the book into a lovely sculpture of a sun, featuring beautifully curving rays that will warm your spirit upon every viewing. Like the other ArtFolds™ Classic Editions, Treasure Island has an embossed cover and pages featuring attractively colored edges. Level: Advanced, 212 folding pages

Download or read book Disney s Treasure Planet written by and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-telling of the animated Disney film 'Treasure Planet', this book follows Jim Hawkins, a rebellious solar-surfing teenager, on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. In search of treasure, Jim finds himself involved in battles and betrayal.

Download or read book Treasure Island And the Black Arrow written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Squire trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the begin ning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treas ure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year Of grace 17 and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown Old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails and the sabre cut across one cheek.