A Matter of Perception: Treasure Island Is Good or Bad

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 other works of Stevenson is "not so wonderful a performance after all"
(www.wwwesterni.unibg.it/siti_esterni/rls/critrec.htm, 3/01/03)…