Treasure Island

Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself. Stevenson's first full-length work of fiction brought him immediate fame and continues to captivate readers of all ages. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning [Coralie Bickford-Smith](https://www.waterstones.com/author/coralie-bickford-smith/2396015), these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://www.waterstones.com/author/robert-louis-stevenson/2664) (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of *Treasure Island* (1883) and *Kidnapped* (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in *The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* (1886), and *The Master of Ballantrae* (1893).