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PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
TREASURE ISLAND AND THE EBB-TIDE
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city’s professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the preoccupation with predestination and fascination with evil that are so powerfully explored in much of his fiction. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is also published in the Penguin English Library.
Three Contemporary Reviews
1) An Unsigned Notice, ‘Academy’
1 December 1883, xxiv, 362
The reviewer is unidentified, but in a letter to Stevenson dated 25 November (B, 4772) Henley remarks that a ‘friend’ hopes to write the ‘Academy’ review.
Mr Stevenson has treated a well-worn theme with freshness. His story is skilfully constructed, and related with untiring vivacity and genuine dramatic power. It is calculated to fascinate the old boy as well as the young, the reader of Smollett and Dr Moore and Marryat as well as the admirer of the dexterous ingenuity of Poe. It deals with a mysterious island, a buried treasure, the bold buccaneer, and all the stirring incidents of a merry life on the Main. Mr Stevenson’s buccaneers are not of the heroic age that Kingsley sang; they know nothing of pleasant isles in the glowing tropic seas; their traditions are not of good Queen Bess and the hated Spaniard; they do not swagger in picturesque attire and drink canary; they belong, in short, to the more prosaic era of the Georges. But they are not less individual and rather more entertaining. They are, for the most part, superlative and consistent villains. They cannot inspire the most enthusiastic youth with a desire for the return of the glorious age of buccaneering. Their profession is not set forth in a dangerous halo of romance, nor are their deeds made alluring through a familiar moral process by which crimes are mitigated with the milk of sophistry. Mr Stevenson deserves praise not alone for this. He has dared to depict an island the sole attraction of which lies in its hidden treasure. With a healthy realism he has avoided that false and specious luxuriance which denaturalises ............

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