Treasure Island
Complete textJim Hawkins’s life at an inn changes when an old sailor’s secrets leave him connected to a map and buried treasure. A voyage brings him among sailors whose loyalties are uncertain, including Long John Silver. Adventure demands judgment as well as courage when the expedition divides against itself.
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Jim’s perspective gives the search its immediacy while leaving him dependent on adults who may be less trustworthy than they appear. Silver’s adaptability complicates easy divisions between charm and danger. Read changes of alliance and possession of supplies alongside the map: material control over food, shelter, and transport can decide what boldness is able to accomplish.
Reading focus
Follow Jim’s changing judgments of the adults around him as maps, supplies, and shifting alliances turn treasure seeking into a test of trust.
This reading edition contains 68,207 words in 35 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
Illustrated by Louis Rhead
Contents
All sections- Dedication and To the Hesitating Purchaser1 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — I The Old Sea-dog at the “Admiral Benbow”11 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — II Black Dog Appears and Disappears11 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — III The Black Spot10 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — IV The Sea-chest10 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — V The Last of the Blind Man9 min
- PART ONE—The Old Buccaneer — VI The Captain’s Papers9 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — VII I Go to Bristol9 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — VIII At the Sign of the Spy-glass9 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — IX Powder and Arms8 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — X The Voyage9 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — XI What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel10 min
- PART TWO—The Sea-cook — XII Council of War9 min
- PART THREE—My Shore Adventure — XIII How I Began My Shore Adventure9 min
- PART THREE—My Shore Adventure — XIV The First Blow9 min
- PART THREE—My Shore Adventure — XV The Man of the Island11 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XVI Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned8 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip7 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XVIII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting7 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XIX Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade10 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XX Silver’s Embassy9 min
- PART FOUR—The Stockade — XXI The Attack10 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXII How I Began My Sea Adventure10 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXIII The Ebb-tide Runs8 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXIV The Cruise of the Coracle10 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXV I Strike the Jolly Roger8 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXVI Israel Hands14 min
- PART FIVE—My Sea Adventure — XXVII “Pieces of Eight”10 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXVIII In the Enemy’s Camp13 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXIX The Black Spot Again10 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXX On Parole11 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXXI The Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer11 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXXII The Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees9 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXXIII The Fall of a Chieftain10 min
- PART SIX—Captain Silver — XXXIV And Last9 min
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