Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Start Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Before Captain Jack Sparro and The Pirates of the Caribbean there were Treasure Island and Kidnapped. Two novels of derring-do and adventure among pirates on the high seas. Thrill with our young heroes as they swashbuckle through one adventure after another. Collected here together are the two books that all other pirate adventures are measured against.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2011-09-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781466311770
Treasure Island has to be one of the greatest adventure novels and best pirate stories, a tale of "pirates and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale for all ages, known for its atmosphere, characters and action. That's why it's also one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2017-08-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781974595761
Squire trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the begin ning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treas ure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year Of grace 17 and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown Old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails and the sabre cut across one cheek.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1528767497
The famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in a new beautiful Pook Press edition, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth A swashbuckling tale of pirates, maps and treasure. The story begins with an old sailor who appears an inn on the west English coast, talking of a sea chest and secret treasure map. When the sailor dies, his charge is left with Jim, the innkeeper’s son, who discovers the chest and map. In no time, Jim is swept into a dangerous quest on the high seas, privy to plots, murder, and mutiny - some whilst concealed in an apple barrel. This is a truly entertaining, action-filled tale that stands the test of time. Pook Press presents this facsimile of the 1911 illustrated edition, containing 9 nostalgic colour plates by N. C. Wyeth, one of America’s greatest Illustrators. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Pook Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528709262
Celebrating 300 years since its first publication, Pook Press releases a new edition of Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe', with stunning illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Pook Press presents this facsimile of the 1920 illustrated edition, containing 13 nostalgic colour plates by N. C. Wyeth, one of America's greatest Illustrators.
Author : Jessica May
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Artists
ISBN : 9780300243680
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Brandywine River Museum of Art, June 23-September 15, 2019, Portland Museum of Art, October 4, 2019-January 12, 2020, and at the Taft Museum of Art, February 8-May 3, 2020.
Author : Newell Convers Wyeth
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1996
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ISBN : 9780517183359
More than 300 four-color and black-and-white illustrations by one of America's preeminent painters are collected here, along with illuminating text from the artist's letters, magazine articles about his work, and many other sources. The result: a fully realized portrait of a golden age illustrator whose work appeared in then Saturday Evening Post, a classic edition of Treasure Island, and elsewhere for 42 years.
Author : Newell Convers Wyeth
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9780517067130
N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.[1] During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, [2] 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best-known.[1] The first of these, Treasure Island, was his masterpiece and the proceeds paid for his studio. Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft.[3] Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly.[4] Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, "Painting and illustration cannot be mixed; one cannot merge from one into the other
Author : Christine Bauer Podmaniczky
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 9781857594782
First catalogue raisonn, of N.C. Wyeth's work, compiled by the foremost historian on the subject.
