Title: Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - book
Summary :
Irony and paradox shape this singular coming-of-age novel, which has become a classic of children's literature, even though it is much more than that. A fourteen-year-old child, Jim Hawkins, learns to be a master, mentored by the most deceptively good-natured of buccaneers. His madness proves to be a good advisor, and his numerous misconducts save the clan of adults, guardians of a decidedly too wise law. As for the treasure, stolen from under the pirates' noses, it is immediately spent, as if it burned their fingers, as if the call of gold had been succeeded by its curse. Nourished by elementary emotions, between wonder and terror, dream and nightmare, this story consecrates the most subtle of writers, elevating adventure to the rank of major art.
