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PREFACE Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occur-red; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individuai—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys...

CHAPTER 1 I Run away to Sea I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he...

PART I THE OLD BUCCANEER CHAPTER 1 The Old Sea Dog at the Admiral Benbow Squire Trelawney, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole parti-culars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the...

CHAPTER 1 The Little Chimney-Sweep Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom. He lived in a great town in the North country, where there were plenty of chimneys to sweep, and plenty of money for Tom to earn and his master to spend. He could not read nor write, and...