L'Île au trésor

Name: L'Île au trésor
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Titre anglais: Treasure Island

par Robert Louis Stevenson · texte original complet

34 chapitres
69 726 mots
environ 537 min

Le jeune Jim Hawkins trouve une vieille carte de pirate menant à un trésor enfoui. Il navigue vers une île lointaine avec le médecin et le propriétaire terrien, mais le cuisinier amical du navire, Long John Silver, a ses propres plans.

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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: