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by: Justin Scott  List Price: $19.95 Price: $3.99 You Save: $15.96 (80%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780312113681 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0312113684 Label: St Martins Pr Manufacturer: St Martins Pr Number Of Pages: 234 Publication Date: 1994-12 Publisher: St Martins Pr Studio: St Martins Pr Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A 1950s setting of the original classic follows the adventures of young Jim Hawkins, who leaves his parent's rundown tourist hotel life so that he may join Senator Trelawney and Doctor Livesey on a search for Nazi gold in the Caribbean. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent Reworking Of A ClassicOK, the reader below totally missed the point... I know what you're thinking: this book was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883, wasn't it? Well, yes, but this is an excellent "modern retelling" which moves the classic story to Long Island in the 1950s. The dubious souls are WWII vets and the treasure is Nazi gold. It's a masterful job of preserving the dialogue and structure, while modernizing. Great stuff. Rating:  - Washed-up re-treadJustin Scott may well have been suffering writer's block or was washed ashore on one of the most lamebrained ideas this century. Why re-write Stevenson's story, which is a true classic?!? Scott sticks close enough to the plot which may cause many a reader to ask the question, "WHY BOTHER?". Mr. Scott may claim that the story has a timeless quality, but I beg to differ. One of the most endearing quality of the original story by Stevenson is the fact that the story was written about a time ... Read More 
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