“Treasure Island”

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of the gentelmen 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. …

Foreign languages publishing house, Moscow 1963. 277 lk