Stevenson readily admitted that he depended on the works of other writers for much of the material in Treasure Island. Some of these writers were Washington Irving, Charles Kingsley, and "a parrot from Defoe, a skeleton from Poe, a stockade from Marryat."
That he rose above the literary form of the "boys' book" (a tale intended to teach boys how to be men, including such romantic adventures as H......
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