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Treasure island is an adventure novel by scottish author robert louis stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold first published as a book on may 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the childrens magazine young folks between 188182 under the title treasure island or, the mutiny of the hispaniola with stevenson adopting the pseudonym captain. A map of an imaginary island gave stevenson the idea for the first story, and a nightmare supplied the premise of the second. Furthermore, you will find a list of stevenson catalogues these published bibliographies list editions of rlss works. Robert louis stevenson 185094 was born in edinburgh, scotland.
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