Gold Island (English-Chinese Contrast)

Author: Fu Jiaqin
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This book is one of the Chinese-English series "Reading English in Flower Season," and "Treasure Island" is an adventure novel by the British New Romanticist author Robert Louis Stevenson. The book tells the story of young Jim, who finds a treasure map in the belongings of the old pirate Billy. He learns that the pirate captain Flint has buried a large fortune on a deserted island. The squire Trevelyan buys a sailboat and sets sail with Jim and the doctor Livesey and others to seek the treasure. During the voyage, Jim accidentally discovers that out of the 26 crew members, 19 are pirates, most of whom are Flint's men, and they are plotting a mutiny to seize the wealth. Unbeknownst to them, Jim, hiding in an apple barrel, overhears their plan and tells the doctor and others. As a result, a secret division forms on the ship, with Flint's faction representing "evil" and the doctor's faction representing "good." The clever doctor Livesey and the resourceful Jim, after several confrontations, finally defeat Flint's overwhelming majority and return with the treasure.