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Treasure Island: A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Adventure
48 pp.
| Courage |
May, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-7624-1275-5$$9.98
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1-3
Illustrated by
N. C. Wyeth.
Stevenson's prose, stripped of much of its descriptive power but honed down to a readable, fast-moving action story, is illustrated in this oversize volume with reproductions of N. C. Wyeth's 1911-edition oil paintings. The reproductions are often blurry or hazy and tend to monochrome umber, but Wyeth's pirates are old-school villainous, and the atmospheric paintings have an almost unmatched dynamism.