tailieunhanh - Sách Treasure Island

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 still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17 and 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 his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came. | Treasure IsiAND By Robert Louis Stevenson TREASURE ISLAND To . an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed it is now in return for numerous delightful hours and with the kindest wishes dedicated by his affectionate friend the author. 2 Treasure Island TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor tales to sailor tunes Storm and adventure heat and cold If schooners islands and maroons And buccaneers and buried gold And all the old romance retold Exactly in the ancient way Can please as me they pleased of old The wiser youngsters of today So be it and fall on If not If studious youth no longer crave His ancient appetites forgot Kingston or Ballantyne the brave Or Cooper of the wood and wave So be it also And may I And all my pirates share the grave Where these and their creations lie Free eBooks at Planet