[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - Treasure Island

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" are Stevenson's breakthrough works, representative masterpieces, and (paradigmatic works) in the New Romanticism literature. They have become one of the most beloved literary classics in the world due to their fantastical plots and captivating stories. "Treasure Island" pioneered the literary genre of treasure hunting, while "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" created one of the most successful archetypes of split personality in literary history. Stevenson was a renowned British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, a founder of the New Romanticism literature in 19th-century Britain and one of its most outstanding representatives. He was also one of the pioneers of modernist creativity in the 20th century. "Treasure Island" was selected for the 1986 "Personal Ideal Library" list by French magazine L'Express. He was an artist who obtained commercial value through cheap and fictional means. His works possess eternal charm, and he changed nothing yet everything decayed—Joseph Fornasiero, Stevenson's best biographer.