Treasure Island was first serialised and then published in 1884.Stevenson had written it for the amusement of his step-son, twelve-year-old Lloyd Osbourne in 1881. It is a tale of pirates, a map, some treasure, a mutiny and a one-legged sea-cook. Treasure Island was originally known as The Sea-Cook. It had appeared as a serial in Young Folks in 1882.Treasure Island, with its mixture of the prodigious and the human, of surprising coincidences and familiar feelings, has become a classic.It is a story which we imagine happening to ourselves, and which lets us daydream, turning our ordinary lives into a romantic adventure.Set in the days of ships and pirates, it creates life-like images, and we are thrilled to go treasure hunting with young Jim Hawkins to the Treasure Island.Binbir Çiçek, çocuklara ve gençlere yönelik dil yayinciliginda ülkemizin önde gelen markalarindan biri. Her geçen gün daha da genislettigimiz ürün yelpazemize simdi de dünya klasiklerinin seviyelendirilmis okuma kitaplarini ekliyor ve dil egitimine deger katiyoruz.Bu seride yer alan kitaplar hem içerikleri hem de içerdikleri kelime sayisi bakimindan basitlestirilmis ve okuyucunun ihtiyaçlari dogrultusunda yeniden düzenlenmistir. Temel amaç kelime bilgisinin gelistirilmesi, cümle yapisinin sindirilmesi ve okuma becerilerinin ilerlemesini saglamaktir. Tüm kitaplarin sonunda bir sözlük ve çesitli aktivitelere de yer verilmistir.(Tanitim Bülteninden)