Treasure Island

by Justin Scott

Book Overview

A 1950s setting of the original classic follows the adventures of young Jim Hawkins, who leaves his parent's rundown tourist hotel life so that he may join Senator Trelawney and Doctor Livesey on a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312113684
• ISBN13: 9780312113681
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reworking Of A Classic

OK, the reader below totally missed the point...I know what you're thinking: this book was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883, wasn't it? Well, yes, but this is an excellent "modern retelling" which moves the classic story to Long Island in the 1950s. The dubious souls are WWII vets and the treasure is Nazi gold. It's a masterful job of preserving the dialogue and structure, while modernizing. Great stuff.