Book description
The true and eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind.
What ever happened to Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous and yet attractively subversive pirate whose exploits made him the anti-hero of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? He lived…
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1 author picked Long John Silver as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This fictional memoir by the infamous one-legged pirate from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is not for children. Silver was one of the first fully formed ambiguous characters in western literature. He was a bad guy with good qualities and a working class hero rebelling against the British upper classes. This is his hilarious, brutal account of his life. I found it endlessly inspiring and it helped make me the pirate I am today.
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