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La isla del tesoro

Name: La isla del tesoro
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Título en inglés: Treasure Island

de Robert Louis Stevenson · texto original completo

34 capítulos
69.726 palabras
unos 537 min

El joven Jim Hawkins encuentra el viejo mapa de un tesoro pirata enterrado. Navega a una isla lejana con el médico y el hacendado, pero el amigable cocinero del barco, Long John Silver, tiene sus propios planes.

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Lee el comienzo

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure 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 shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: