Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism | Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - Richard Middleton (essay date 1911)

Richard Middleton (essay date 1911)

SOURCE: "Treasure Island as a Book for Boys," in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXI, No. 3512, October 28, 1911, pp. 249-51.

[In the following essay, Middleton attributes the unpopularity of the first publication of Treasure Island to the presence of human flaws in Stevenson's charac ters—a literary quality "at variance with juvenile conceptions of adventure."]

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