Treasure Island is an adventure
novel by Scottish author
Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "
buccaneers and buried gold". It was originally serialized in the children's magazine
Young Folks between 1881 and 1882 under the title
Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by
Cassell & Co.