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| "Othello by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Edited Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugral volumes presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies This is an intense drama of love deception jealousy and destruction Desdemona's love for Othello the Moor transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives In its vivid rendering of racism sexism contested identities and the savagery lurking within civilisation Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist Productions on stage and screen regularly renew its power to engross impress and trouble the imagination"
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| "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Canterbury Christ Church University College Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance she possesses an indomitable spirit a sharp wit and great courage She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian a harsh employer and a rigid social order All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester However there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation loss and reunion only to be confronted with tragedy"
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| "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries Written by Mary Shelley it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart&39; The tale is a superb blend of science fiction mystery and thriller Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose the grotesque surreal imagery and the multi-layered themes in the novel Although first published in 1818 Shelley&39;s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies television and stage adaptations"
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| "The Odyssey by Homer (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts Royal Holloway University of London Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus Greek warrior as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War His colourful adventures his endurance his love for his wife and son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they did in Archaic Greece 2800 years ago This poem has been translated many times over the years but Chapman's sinewy gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own Chapman believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own John Keats expressed his admiration for the resulting work in the famous sonnet 'On first looking into Chapman's Homer' 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold'This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible annotation and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece in the context of his own day and discusses its influences on later poets"
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| "Call of the Wild & White Fang by Jack London (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly University of Reading The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s The Call of the Wild is about Buck the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild' an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds In contrast White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born and bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust and love The brutal world of the Klondike miners and their dogs is brilliantly evoked and Jack London's rendering of the sentient life of Buck and White Fang as they confront their destiny is enthralling and convincing The deeper resonance of these stories derives from the author's use of the myth of the hero who survives by strength and courage a powerful myth that still appeals to our collective unconscious"
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| "Emma by Jane Austen (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury University of Reading Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like' but Emma is irresistible 'Handsome clever and rich' Emma is also an 'imaginist' 'on fire with speculation and foresight' She sees the signs of romance all around her but thinks she will never be married Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective Judgement and imagination are matched in games the reader too can enjoy and the end is a triumph of understanding"
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| "The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge Senior Lecturer School of English University of Kent at Canterbury This is a troubling story of crime sin guilt punishment and expiation set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges However it is not so much her harsh sentence but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax"
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| "A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Edited Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series with Romeo and Juliet Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugural volumes presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal Its lyricism comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeare’s works The supernatural and the mundane the illusory and the substantial are all shimmeringly blended Love is treated as tragic poignant absurd and farcical ‘Lord what fools these mortals be!’ jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver his head transformed into that of an ass is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania Recent stage-productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream have emphasised the enchanting spectacular ambiguous and erotically joyous aspects of this magical drama which culminates in a multiple celebration of marriage"
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| "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies Translation by Louis Mercier Professor Aronnax his faithful servant Conseil and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster However the monster turns out to be a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo by whom they are soon held captive So begins not only one of the great adventure classics by Jules Verne the 'Father of Science Fiction' but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole"
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| "Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood University of Sussex Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park it has quite unexpected results The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her"
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| "The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "'My name is Sherlock Holmes It is my business to know what other people don't know' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories The Memoirs In these twenty three tales collected here in one volume you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel There is for example the man who is frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing five orange pips; there is the terrified woman who is aware that her life is in danger and cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night; and there is the riddle of the missing butler and the theft of an ancient treasure In the last story there is the climatic battle between Holmes and his arch enemy 'the Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty Holmes with trusty Watson by his side is equal to these and the other challenges in this splendid collection"
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| "Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Translated by P A Motteux With an Introduction and Notes by Stephen Boyd University College Cork Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams Dulcinea del Toboso has fascinated generations of readers and inspired other creative artists such as Flaubert Picasso and Richard Strauss The tall thin knight and his short fat squire Sancho Panza have found their way into films cartoons and even computer games Supposedly intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction of the day the ‘books of chivalry’ this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated comic account of the contradictions of human nature On his ‘heroic’ journey Don Quixote meets characters of every class and condition from the prostitute Maritornes who is commended for her Christian charity to the Knight of the Green Coat who seems to embody some of the constraints of virtue Cervantes’ greatest work can be enjoyed on many levels all suffused with a subtle irony that reaches out to encompass the reader and does not leave the author outside its circle Peter Motteux’s fine eighteenth-century translation acknowledged as one of the best brilliantly succeeds in communicating the spirit of the original Spanish"
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| "A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Dickens&39; greatest historical novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle&39;s great work - The French Revolution The best story I have written&39; was Dickens&39; own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author&39;s unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering self-sacrifice and redemption"
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| "The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos Porthos and Aramis Under the watchful eye of their patron M de Treville the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy Milady one of literature's most memorable female villains and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion Our edition uses the William Barrow translation first published by Bruce and Wylde (London1846)"
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| "Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by David Blair University of Kent Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered rural home to enter the busy sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her In this her first full-length novel Austen also fixes her sharp ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe Catherine's reading becomes intertwined with her social and romantic adventures adding to the uncertainties and embarrassments she must undergo before finding happiness"
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| "The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by David Blair Rutherford College University of Kent The Moonstone a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday That very night the stone is stolen Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers and on Rachel herself The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in and with the help of Betteredge the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved"
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| "Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury From its first publication in 1719 Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation and been the subject of plays opera cartoons and computer games The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge Rousseau and Wordsworth this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of adventure"
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| "Dubliners by James Joyce (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies Dartmouth College New Hampshire Living overseas but writing always about his native city Joyce made Dublin unforgettable The stories in Dubliners show us truants seducers gossips rally-drivers generous hostesses corrupt politicians failing priests amateur theologians struggling musicians moony adolescents victims of domestic brutishness sentimental aunts and poets patriots earnest or cynical and people striving to get by In every sense an international figure Joyce was faithful to his own country by seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature"
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| "The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury With Illustrations by RSeymour RW Buss and Hablot K Browne (Phiz) The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English Originally serialised in monthly instalments it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40000 by the final part In the century and a half since its first appearance the characters of Mr Pickwick Sam Weller and the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general and the works of Dickens in particular"
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| "Persuasion by Jane Austen (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan Reader in Literature University of Essex What does persuasion mean - a firm belief or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines but also one of the strongest and the most open to change She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars a time of accident adventure the making of new fortunes and alliances A woman of no importance she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars Even though she is nearly thirty well past the sell-by bloom of youth Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself in a regenerated society"
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| "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters Three of these the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery This translation is one which received Tolstoy's approval"
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| "Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance Professor of English University of Sussex Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy&39;s Wessex novels It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was ‘…the past was yesterday; never the day after’ and lastly of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer Mr Boldwood whose love fills him with ‘…a fearful sense of exposure’ when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside in all its moods contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels"
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| "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren University of Kent at Canterbury Set in 1482 Victor Hugo's powerful novel of imagination caprice and fantasy' is a meditation on love fate architecture and politics as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast Hugo creates a host of unforgettable characters - amongst them Quasimodo the hunchback of the title hopelessly in love with the gypsy girl Esmeralda the satanic priest Claude Frollo Clopin Trouillefou king of the beggars and Louis X1 King of France Over the entire novel both literally and symbolically broods the Cathedral of Notre-Dame Vivid characters and memorable set-piece action scenes combine to bring the past to life in this story of love lust betrayal doom and redemption"
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| "Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction by Roger Clark University of Kent at Canterbury Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling Castigated for offending against public decency Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm For Flaubert's contemporaries the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters For the writer subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional creations Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction his portrayal of contemporary reality his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction"
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| "Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury Illustrations by Hablot K Browne (Phiz) Bleak House is one of Dickens&39; finest achievements establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist as well as a brilliant comic writer It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society Its representations of a great city&39;s underworld and of the law&39;s corruption and delay draw upon the author&39;s personal knowledge and experience But it is his symbolic art that projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy cosmic farce and tragic ruin In a unique creative experiment Dickens divides the narrative between his heroine Esther Summerson who is psychologically interesting in her own right and an unnamed narrator whose perspective both complements and challenges hers"
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| "Around the World in 80 Days / Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal University of Kent at Canterbury Translationsare by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon) JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages Extraordinaires Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern science fiction Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant Passepartout whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson the prototype of the Vernian adventurer"
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| "To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury University of Reading This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels It is based on her own early experiences and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War"
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| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman University of Hull Set in the mid-19th century and written from the author's first-hand experience North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society This is a tale of hard-won triumphs - of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems and possibilities which are still challenging a hundred and fifty years later the complex relationships public and private between men and women of different classes"
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| "Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English University of Sussex Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work Now controversial this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama an ageing priest; and both embark on a combined quest Whereas Kim has an insatiable interest in the varied activities around him the lama seeks redemption from the Wheel of Life' Kim becomes involved in the Great Game' undertaking espionage for the British rulers This engrossing and moving novel with its diversity of memorable characters offers many insights into political religious and social tensions"
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| "Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains maps treasure and shipwreck and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written When young Jim Hawkins finds a packet in Captain Flint's sea chest he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable treasure Shipping as cabin boy on the Hispaniola he sails with Squire Trelawney Captain Smollett Dr Livesey the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island There mutiny murder and mayhem lead to a thrilling climax"
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