Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

Bell, Ian. "Exile: 1880-1884," pp. 143-59. In Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1992.

Discusses the biographical context surrounding Stevenson's composition of Treasure Island and emphasizes the author's poor health at the time.

Damon, Lindsay Todd. Introduction to Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Lindsay Todd Damon, pp. 27-29. New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1904.

Discusses Stevenson's artistic temperament in relation to the creation of Treasure Island.

Kiely, Robert. "Adventure as Boy's Daydream." In Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, pp. 61-108. Harvard University Press, 1964.

Discusses the thematic elements that contribute to the essential feeling of freedom, or "casting off of encumbrances that...

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