English · Intermediate
Read Treasure Island in Englishwith every sentence explained
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883
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About the book
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published in 1883. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked intermediate and filed under thriller and suspense and young adult. It runs to about 67,700 words.
A treasure map. A ship full of pirates. A cook you should never trust.
Young Jim Hawkins helps his mother run the Admiral Benbow, a quiet inn on the English coast — until a scarred old sea captain moves in, terrified of a one-legged sailor. When the captain dies, Jim finds in his sea chest a map marking the spot where the bloodthirsty pirate Captain Flint buried his gold.
Soon Jim is sailing on the Hispaniola with Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey, bound for a distant island. But the ship's friendly cook, Long John Silver, has plans of his own, and half the crew may not be what they seem.
Treasure maps marked with an X, parrots crying "Pieces of eight!" — Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 adventure shaped everything we imagine about pirates.
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- First published
- 1883
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Thriller and Suspense, Young Adult
- Length
- About 67,700 words
How it opens
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.
Reading Treasure Island in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday English feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
