L'Île au trésor

Name: L'Île au trésor
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ISBN: 9782080152800

Robert Louis Stevenson, Christophe Lemoine, Jean-Marie Woehrel, Mathilde Sorel

Dominique Fernandez (foreword), Deodat Serval (translation)

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Le jour où un vieux marin au visage balafré élit domicile à l'auberge de son père, le jeune Jim Hawkins est loin d'imaginer le périple qui l'attend. À la mort mystérieuse du flibustier, il trouve une carte au fond de son coffre. Sans hésiter, il embarque sur l'Hispaniola en quête du trésor caché dans l'île du Squelette, en compagnie d'un douteux équipage...
Chef-d'oeuvre du roman d'aventures, « mélange indescriptible de prodigieux et d'humain » selon les mots de Henry James, L'Île au trésor (1883) se double d'un récit d'initiation, qui voit un modeste fils d'aubergiste, affranchi de ses parents, affronter les mille dangers du monde de la piraterie. Mais la trahison, la cruauté et la ruse l'empêcheront-elles de rentrer chez lui riche et couvert de gloire ?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but managed to write prolifically and travel widely despite his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890 he settled in Samoa, where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in 1894 at age 44. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, although today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018 he was ranked just behind Charles Dickens as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.