Treasure Island was first serialised and then published in 1884. Stevenson had written it for the amusement of his step-son, twelve-year-old Lloyd Osbourne in 1881. It is a tale of pirates, a map, some treasure, a mutiny and a one-legged sea-cook. Treasure Island was originally known as The Sea-Cook. It had appeared as a serial in Young Folks in 1882. Treasure Island, with its mixture of the prodigious and the human, of surprising coincidences and familiar feelings, has become a classic. It is a story which