世界文学经典读本:金银岛(2013英文版)[TreasureIsland]
内容简介
《世界文学经典读本:金银岛(2013英文版)》讲述的是浪漫而奇险的海上寻宝故事。一日,少年吉姆·霍金梦见宝藏和海上历险。没过几天,他就从一位生命垂危的水手彭斯的手中得到藏宝图,他与乡绅屈利劳尼、医生李福西等一道乘船去寻找南方的宝岛。然而,海盗头目西尔弗及其手下也一道上了船。原来,这笔价值70万英镑的宝藏是已故海盗船长弗林特留下的,他的爪牙还在,他们也在觊觎这宗财宝,于是,一场惊心动魄的夺宝大战由此展开。
《世界文学经典读本:金银岛(2013英文版)》虽是一本写给孩子们的书,但小说题材新颖,情节变幻莫测,尤其是几个主要人物性格鲜明生动,即使是海盗西尔弗,也并不脸谱化,因而,这部小说自诞生以来一直深受各年龄层读者的喜爱,并多次被搬上银幕。
作者简介
Robert Louis Stevenson(1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton. Who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".