Written in the nineteenth century, Treasure Island was the beginning of Robert Louis Stevenson's career as a writer. While numerous critics think that his work (Treasure Island) was a great success, there are still some that think it was not. In there critiques they deal with moral concerns that the people of Stevenson's tome may have had and literary excellence. Maurice Hewlett says in his article in "Criticism Today" that Treasure Island along with many …
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…a brief ananysis of Treasure Island's literary excellence. Harris, Laurie Lanzen, Fitzgerald, Sheila. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1998. This source has numerous critics talking about literary excellence and morals that is shown through Treasure Island. ClassicNote on Treasure Island: About Treasure Island, 1 March 2003 <http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/treasure/about.html> Robert Louis Stevenson: Critical Reception, 1 March 2003 <http://www.wwwesterni.unibg.it/siti_esterni/rls/critrec.htm>