Originally serialized in the children’s magazine Young Folks, the novel was an immediate success with its sensational storyline of shipwreck, heroism, pirates, treachery, mutiny and murder. Traditionally considered as a coming-of-age story, it is widely popular for its superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality unusual for children’s literature then and now. Undoubtedly, Treasure Island is a masterpiece in world adventure literature. About the novel, Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote “I think Stevenson shows more genius in a page than Sir Walter Scott in a volume”