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TREASURE ISLAND

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND

NOTES BY FRANKLIN T. BAKER, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN TEACHERS

COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK

CHARLES E. MERRILL CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1909
BY
CHARLES E. MERRILL CO.

EDITOR'S PREFACE

THIS little classic of Stevenson's is now definitely placed in the category of school books. It has taken this rank because of its undoubted appeal to young readers, and because of the high order of its workmanship. If, however, its place among school books means that it is to be made, through mistaken editorial and pedagogical zeal, a task instead of a pleasure to the boy, the choice of it for such purposes is a grave mistake. The present editor has therefore sought only to furnish such notes as will save the reader from the inconvenience of going to the dictionary, and such comments as will enlighten him regarding the high place the book has won with readers of cultivated tastes.

                                                                                                                                                                 F. T. B.
October 1, 1909.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

THIS series of books will include in complete editions those masterpieces of English Literature that are best adapted for the use of schools and colleges. The editors of the several volumes will be chosen for their special qualifications in connection with the texts to be issued under their individual supervision, but familiarity with the practical needs of the classroom, no less than sound scholarship, will characterize the editing of every book in the series in connection with each text, a critical and historical introduction, including a sketch of the life of the author and his relation to the thought of his time, critical opinions of the work in question chosen from the great body of English criticism, and, where possible, a portrait of the author, will be given. Ample explanatory notes of such passages in the text as call for special attention will be supplied, but irrelevant annotation and explanations of the obvious will be rigidly excluded.

CHARLES E. MERRILL CO.

CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 

CRITICAL OPINIONS 

[Map Of Treasure Island]


PART I.  —  THE OLD BUCCANEER

I. THE OLD SEA DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW

II. BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS

III. THE BLACK SPOT

IV. THE SEA CHEST

V. THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN

VI. THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS


PART II.  —  THE SEA COOK.

VII. I GO TO BRISTOL

VIII. AT THE SIGN OF THE "SPY-GLASS"

IX. POWDER AND ARMS

X. THE VOYAGE

XI. WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL

XII. COUNCIL OF WAR


PART III.  —  MY SHORE ADVENTURE.

XIII. HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN

XIV. THE FIRST BLOW

XV. THE MAN OF THE ISLAND


PART IV  —  THE STOCKADE.

XVI. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR —
HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED

XVII. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR —
THE JOLLY BOAT'S LAST TRIP

XVIII. NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR —
END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING

XIX. NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS —
THE GARRIS0N IN THE STOCKADE

XX. SILVER'S EMBASSY

XXI. THE ATTACK


PART V.  —  MY SEA ADVENTURE.

XXII. HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN

XXIII. THE EBB-TIDE RUNS

XXIV. THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE

XXV. I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER

XXVI. ISRAEL HANDS

XXVII. "PIECES OF EIGHT"


PART VI.  —  CAPTAIN SILVER.

XXVIII. IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP

XXIX. THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN

XXX. ON PAROLE

XXXI. THE TREASURE HUNT — FLINT'S POINTER

XXXII.THE TREASURE HUNT — THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES

XXXIII. THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN

XXXIV. AND LAST


NOTES

TOPICS AND QUESTIONS FOR STUDY


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