Treasure Island (Junior Classics) [Abridged, Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]

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Classic Comics return in this uninspired adaptation of Stevenson's rollicking pirate tale. The storyline is faithful-perhaps too faithful-to the original text; presented mostly in dull boxes of first-person narration, it plods glacially for a full third of the work, until young Jim Hawkins finally boards the Hispaniola. His subsequent terrifying adventure certainly speeds up the pace, but the black-and-white artwork, while realistic and finely detailed, remains frustratingly static; moody and atmospheric, it seems better suited to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll ; Mr. Hyde. The shipboard details and contemporary accoutrements appear accurate and painstakingly researched, but the characters are sketchy and hard to distinguish behind the inky noir shadows and strained perspectives. Occasional images of startling beauty and subtle power testify to Hamilton's talent; it's a pity he didn't trust them to carry the story. (Graphic novel. 8+) (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A new edition of this exciting tale of pirates, skulduggery and buried treasure --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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By : Robert Louis Stevenson
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• Audio CD
• Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks; Abridged edition (3 Oct 2005)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 9626341017
• ISBN-13: 978-9626341018
• Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 14.3 x 1 cm
  

 

Treasure Island (Junior Classics) [Abridged, Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]

 

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Treasure Island is one of a smaller quantity of books that are each for children and adults. The appeal of the book for children relates to the story line: pirates, buried treasure, sea voyages to faraway places, and a boy hero. The appeal of the book for adults is in seeing a superb example of how events operate at many distinctive levels. Lengthy John Silver promptly becomes the focus for adults. What is his correct nature? What will he do subsequent? Clearly, Silver is a single of the most interesting and memorable of all fictional characters.

A difficulty that young children will have with this book is that the language is somewhat foreign to them. Some adults and youngsters will get that the book begins slowly compared to newer novels (which usually have the equivalent of a chase sequence in the first five pages).

My assistance is to stick with the story for the initially 6 chapters, and see how you are carrying out. By that time, the story will either have cast its spell on you, or you will be in a position to tell that this book is not for you.

A final cause for reading Treasure Island is since the book has been read by so a great number of persons. You will find references to the story in other literature and in conversation with other people. You will also run into establishments referred to as The Admiral Benbow Inn. It would be a shame not ot know its heritage. Also, discovering someone else who likes Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver for the identical factors you do is a amazing shortcut to becoming superior acquainted.

Personally, I located the story irresistible. I would have written a extremely comparable book if I had the skill to do so. The plot is nicely balanced, and the characters provide an unusual perspective for what could conveniently have been a real potboiler with little to recommend it. The book has amazing charm, given its concentrate on pirates, which makes it compelling for me. I have now read the book three occasions, and enjoyed it extra each and every time.

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There are particular books that are so deeply embedded in our history and culture that you somehow feel you have read them even if you have not. Treasure Island is 1 such book. I keep in mind as a child watching the film version at Christmas and being so terrified by both Long John Silver and, perhaps oddly, by Ben Gunn, that I practically couldn't watch. At the same time I was unsurprisingly incredibly enamoured of brave young Jim the boy hero with whom I of course felt I could identify.

So it was with this legacy that I picked the book up some thirty years later to finally truly read it. Two factors in particular shocked me in the opening chapters, firstly I had no concept how wonderfully gothic the get started of the book is. The creaking Admiral Benbow Inn offers a suitably sinister backdrop for the macabre triumvirate of Captain Bill, Black Dog and very best of all Blind Pew, as they `graah' and `aaahh' their way into the story. All are substantially bigger than life but no worse for it and are clearly templates, along with Extended John Silver, for lots of, lots of fictional `gentleman of fortune' who have graced page and screen because, not least Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. Secondly I was surprised by the protagonist and narrator Jim. He is a genuinely independent boy hero with additional than his fair share of wilfulness and impetuosity mixed in with the predictable obedience and piety. As the story unfolds, his apparent determination to do whatever he desires seems to develop to the point where he is in danger of becoming rather irritating. Twice he recklessly abandons his pals but on both occasions his absconding proves ultimately, to his and his friends' advantage. A hero indeed with the sort of youthful exuberance and stubbornness with which each kid can relate.

In the final evaluation Treasure Island is not a lot way more than a quite finely written adventure story but then neither does it pretend to be. Stevenson does not seem to have had considerably interest in moralising or edifying and he definitely was not out to offer you special insights into the human condition, indeed the characters of Dr Livesey and Squire Trelawney are two-dimensional at most effective. Just it is completely enjoyable and engaging throughout, by turns highly funny and genuinely frightening. A beautifully paced, meticulously plotted example of nineteenth century children's adventure literature at its really most effective.

 

Treasure Island (Junior Classics) [Abridged, Audiobook, Classical] [Audio CD]