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- The Best Action Adventure BooksReading list
Treasure Island is one of the most famous action-adventure stories ever written. Published in 1883, the book tells the story of Jim Hawkins, a young boy who finds himself caught up in a piratical treasure hunt.
- Frances HardingeInterview
Yes, hundreds! I’d definitely mention A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair by Nicholas Fisk, Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr, A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, A Swift Pure Cry by…
- John PerkinsInterview
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- Francesco GolaInterview
No doubt my childhood was marked by Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The adventure, a distant era, pirates; reading this book by the light of a candle, tucked up in bed, made me feel like a real buccaneer!
- Simon MajumdarInterview
It is more a series of books. At Junior school we would often read abridged editions of classics and I just ate them up. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. They sparked off a love of literature that has never left me.
- William DickInterview
I loved Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson when I was younger and revisited recently. It still is a wonderful adventure full of visual images.
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