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The Sea Cook and the search for Treasure Island. (Literature).
THE CHILDREN'S CLASSIC tale Treasure Island, like any good allegory, tells us something new about the world and ourselves. Stevenson's story is always worth a revisit; yet there remains one mystery the solution to which obstinately eludes us: What is the secret of that fascination which Long John Silver exercises over our imagination? How does this rascal retain our sympathy, even respect--in spite of his murderous deeds? There must be something elemental within this figure to which we instinctively respond.
In the summer of 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson, with his wife and twelve-year-old stepson, took a cottage at Braemar in Scotland, not far from where Queen ...
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