Treasure Island (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. An 18th-century pirate adventure: Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and a mutiny-torn voyage from Bristol to a Caribbean treasure map questBy Robert Louis Stevenson
Length3h
About this audiobook
Treasure Island charts young Jim Hawkins's flight from a quiet inn into mutiny, marooning, and buried gold. Narrated chiefly in Jim's lucid first person, with sober interludes by Dr. Livesey, it marries brisk prose to salty specificity: the creak of rigging, the stink of the stockade. Set within late-Victorian juvenile romance yet shadowed by Defoe, it consolidated pirate lore: the X-marked map, the talking parrot, and Long John Silver's unsettling blend of charm, cunning, and menace. Robert Louis Stevenson, the itinerant Scot from a dynasty of lighthouse engineers, grew up amid charts and coast talk. In 1881 he drew a treasure map to entertain his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne; the tale followed in magazine serial, its tautness shaped by that form and by his battles with illness. Travel, seafaring friendships, and moral curiosity supplied the novel's ballast: a study in apprenticeship, temptation, and the ethics of command under pressure. Readers of maritime history, students of narrative craft, and adventurers at heart will find Treasure Island both swift and inexhaustible. It is a classic of action and conscience, equally suited to first-time explorers and seasoned scholars seeking the wellspring of modern pirate myth.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature
Length3 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
25Chapter XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
2Introduction
26Chapter XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
3Synopsis
27Chapter XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
4Historical Context
28Chapter XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
5Author Biography
29Chapter XX. Silver’s Embassy
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6Part I. The Old Buccaneer
30Chapter XXI. The Attack
7Chapter I. The Old Sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
31Part V. My Sea Adventure
8Chapter II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
32Chapter XXII. How My Sea Adventure Began
9Chapter III. The Black Spot
33Chapter XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
10Chapter IV. The Sea Chest
34Chapter XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
11Chapter V. The Last of the Blind Man
35Chapter XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
12Chapter VI. The Captain’s Papers
36Chapter XXVI. Israel Hands
13Part II. The Sea Cook
37Chapter XXVII. 'Pieces of Eight'
14Chapter VII. I Go to Bristol
38Part VI. Captain Silver
15Chapter VIII. At the Sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
39Chapter XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
16Chapter IX. Powder and Arms
40Chapter XXIX. The Black Spot Again
17Chapter X. The Voyage
41Chapter XXX. On Parole
18Chapter XI. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
42Chapter XXXI. The Treasure Hunt — Flint’s Pointer
19Chapter XII. Council of War
43Chapter XXXII. The Treasure Hunt — The Voice Among the Trees
20Part III. My Shore Adventure
44Chapter XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
21Chapter XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began
45Chapter XXXIV. And Last
22Chapter XIV. The First Blow
46Analysis
23Chapter XV. The Man of the Island
47Reflection
24Part IV. The Stockade
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