Treasure Island

A sea-chest, a map and a one-legged cook. Read all 34 chapters in English, each with a short summary.

Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the sea-chest of a dead pirate and sails to an island with the squire and the doctor to look for the treasure. Not everyone on board can be trusted, least of all the friendly one-legged ship's cook, Long John Silver. Jim tells the story himself, in 34 short chapters.

Start with Chapter 1

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow
Chapter 2: Black Dog Appears and Disappears
Chapter 3: The Black Spot
Chapter 4: The Sea-chest
Chapter 5: The Last of the Blind Man
Chapter 6: The Captain’s Papers
Chapter 7: I Go to Bristol
Chapter 8: At the Sign of the Spy-glass
Chapter 9: Powder and Arms
Chapter 10: The Voyage
Chapter 11: What I Heard in the Apple-Barrel
Chapter 12: Council of War
Chapter 13: How I Began My Shore Adventure
Chapter 14: The First Blow
Chapter 15: The Man of the Island
Chapter 16: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned
Chapter 17: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
Chapter 18: Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
Chapter 19: Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
Chapter 20: Silver’s Embassy
Chapter 21: The Attack
Chapter 22: How I Began My Sea Adventure
Chapter 23: The Ebb-tide Runs
Chapter 24: The Cruise of the Coracle
Chapter 25: I Strike the Jolly Roger
Chapter 26: Israel Hands
Chapter 27: “Pieces of Eight”
Chapter 28: In the Enemy’s Camp
Chapter 29: The Black Spot Again
Chapter 30: On Parole
Chapter 31: The Treasure-hunt—Flint’s Pointer
Chapter 32: The Treasure-hunt—The Voice Among the Trees
Chapter 33: The Fall of a Chieftain
Chapter 34: And Last

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, first published in 1883. Public domain.