Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Die Schatzinsel
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love fast stories of ships, maps and mutiny, and anyone who wants to see where the pirate of the popular imagination was born.
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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish writer. He began it in 1881 during a rainy holiday in the Scottish Highlands, and it first appeared in a boys' magazine in installments before it came out as a book in 1883. It began with a hand-drawn map and a game with his young stepson. Stevenson then wrote the story chapter by chapter, and the result set the pattern for pirate tales ever since.
The story is told by Jim Hawkins, who is a boy when the tale begins. He lives at the Admiral Benbow, a lonely inn on the English coast kept by his parents. One day a rough old sailor comes to stay, and with him comes fear. Behind the sailor lie a map, a dead pirate captain, and a fortune buried on an island far away.
In this summary you will meet the people who sail for that island, the plot that forms against them on the ship, and the fight for a small wooden fort on the shore. You will also see why the book is about more than gold. Let us begin where Jim begins, at the door of the inn, with a stranger and his sea chest.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A stranger with a sea chest arrivesFree
- 2The black spot sends the pirates
- 3A ship, a crew and a cook
- 4An apple barrel holds a terrible secret
- 5Landfall on an island of fever and fear
- 6A stockade, a siege and shifting sides
- 7The attack, the fort and Jim's own plan
- 8Greed, loyalty and the boy who grows up
- 9A boy's voice, a map and a pirate legacy
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A stranger with a sea chest arrives
The story opens at the Admiral Benbow inn, on a wild stretch of the English coast. Jim Hawkins, the innkeeper's son, tells us how an old seaman with a sabre scar across his face came to the door one morning. The man is tall and brown and strong, and his sea chest follows him in a hand-barrow. He calls himself the captain, though no one knows of any ship. He takes a room, pays a little money, and says he is watching for a seafaring man with one leg.
This guest is Billy Bones, and he fills the inn with dread. He sits in the parlour with his rum, roars out a pirate song, and tells ugly tales that frighten the farmers who drink there. He makes Jim a small promise of silver every month if the boy will keep an eye open for the one-legged man. Jim does not sleep well. He dreams of that one leg walking after him through the dark.
Jim's father is ill and dying, and the family cannot afford to lose a paying guest. So the captain stays and stays, and the money he paid at first runs out. Dr Livesey, the local doctor, comes to see Jim's father, and he meets the captain in the parlour. The old man, in a drunken fit, draws his knife on the doctor. Livesey, calm and stern, warns him that he will see him hanged if the knife is ever used.
Then strangers begin to appear. The first is a pale man with two missing fingers, who is called Black Dog. He comes looking for his old shipmate, and the two quarrel and fight. Black Dog runs off wounded, and the captain is struck down by a stroke. Dr Livesey tells him that one more glass of rum will kill him.
Stevenson takes only a few chapters to do something clever here. He makes us fear a man we never fully understand, and he makes us feel how thin the walls of a quiet inn really are. Jim, who cannot yet know what is in the chest, is already caught in a danger that has followed the captain across the sea. The questions the reader asks are the ones Jim asks. Who is the one-legged man, and what is in that heavy box?
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Who’s who
- Jim Hawkins
- The young innkeeper's son narrates the adventure and sails as cabin boy with the treasure seekers.
- Long John Silver
- The charming, one-legged ship's cook befriends Jim while concealing his own ambitions for the treasure.
- Dr Livesey
- The local doctor and magistrate helps Trelawney organize the expedition and offers Jim steady support.
- Squire Trelawney
- The generous landowner finances the expedition but talks too openly about its purpose.
- Captain Smollett
- The stern captain commands the Hispaniola and distrusts the arrangements made by Trelawney.
- Billy Bones
- The fearful seaman lodges at Jim's family inn, bringing a sea chest and dangerous connections.
- Ben Gunn
- The marooned former pirate lives alone on the island and knows its hidden places.
- Blind Pew
- The threatening blind pirate forces Jim to take him to Billy Bones at the inn.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 71,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 4 h 40 min
- Listening time7 h 50 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 11 other languages
Questions about Die Schatzinsel
What is Treasure Island about?
It is the story of Jim Hawkins, a boy who finds a pirate's treasure map and sails with a doctor, a squire and a captain to find the gold, while a hidden band of pirates plots against them.
Who is Long John Silver?
Long John Silver is the one-legged cook of the Hispaniola, who walks with a crutch and keeps a parrot. He is friendly and clever, and he is also the leader of the pirates on board.
Is Treasure Island based on a true story?
No, it is fiction, though Stevenson drew on stories of real pirates and sea travel. He wrote it in 1881 and 1882, and it came out as a book in 1883.
Is Treasure Island hard to read?
Not very. The chapters are short and the story moves fast. The plot is easy to follow.
Why is Treasure Island still read today?
It set the pattern for pirate stories, with its map, black spot and parrot. It also offers a vivid narrator in Jim and a villain, Silver, who is both charming and dangerous.