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Treasure Island, one of the greatest adventure stories of all times, is 100 years old this month. You might think that we who have left sailing ships and buried treasure far behind and entered the space age would consign such an old chestnut to the dustbins of history.
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Stevenson (1977) Treasure Island [18831 (London) Everyman’s edn, introduction by M. R. Ridley, p. 5. Further references to Treasure Island (hereafter designated TI) will be given with page numbers in the main body of the text.
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Loxley, D. (1990). ‘Slaves to Adventure’: The Pure Story of Treasure Island. In: Problematic Shores: The Literature of Islands. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10810-7_4
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