My First Book—Treasure Island

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Document Type

Article

Date

Fall 1986

Keywords

Syracuse University Special Collections, rare books, Robert Louis Stevenson, novelists, Treasure Island, classic literature

Language

English

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Description/Abstract

This article (after a brief introduction by Mark F. Weimer of Syracuse University) first appeared in McClure's Magazine in 1894. It is the now-rare preface to the classic novel Treasure Island, in which Robert Louis Stevenson comments on how the novel sprang from a map he painted with the assistance of an imaginative schoolboy while recuperating from an illness. A holograph manuscript of the preface is located in the Syracuse University Libraries.

Additional Information

The text used for this article was originally published in McClure's Magazine in September 1894.

Recommended Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "My First Book—Treasure Island." The Courier 21.2 (1986): 77-88.

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