“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

 

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this for his stepson on a rainy Scottish holiday, and what he ended up creating was the template for nearly every pirate story that came after and what feels familiar now was genuinely thrilling when it first landed on the page.

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