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Treasure Island

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Level 2

Retold by Ann Ward

Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter

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

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Contents

page

Introduction

Chapter 1 Jim Hawkins’ Story I

Chapter 2 Dr Livesey’s Story

Chapter 3 Jim’s Story II

Activities

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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