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Treasure Island study guide contains a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
The setting of this story is described by young Jim Hawkins as the book begins: "Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up lodging under our roof." Gravely ill, Billy Bones resides at the Admiral Benbow for "many months." The brown old seaman' strikes fear into patrons' hearts as he consumes dangerous quantities of rum and sings an old sea song…
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- Treasure Island Summary
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- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-6
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 7-13
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 14-20
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 21-27
- Summary and Analysis of Chapters 28-34
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