Wrecker

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775451358
• Edition: 0

This sprawling nautical adventure tale from Robert Louis Stevenson adds a dash of humor and mystery to the formula that the author perfected in classic yarns like Kidnapped and Treasure Island. Co-written with Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, this novel is a must-read for fans of the action-adventure genre.

Table of contents

• THE WRECKER
• Contents
• Prologue - In the Marquesas
• Chapter I - A Sound Commercial Education
• Chapter II - Roussillon Wine
• Chapter III - To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton
• Chapter IV - In Which I Experience Extremes of Fortune
• Chapter V - In Which I Am Down on My Luck in Paris
• Chapter VI - In Which I Go West
• Chapter VII - Irons in the Fire
• Chapter VIII - Faces on the City Front
• Chapter IX - The Wreck of the "Flying Scud"
• Chapter X - In Which the Crew Vanish
• Chapter XI - In Which Jim and I Take Different Ways
• Chapter XII - The "Norah Creina"
• Chapter XIII - The Island and the Wreck
• Chapter XIV - The Cabin of the "Flying Scud"
• Chapter XV - The Cargo of the "Flying Scud"
• Chapter XVI - In Which I Turn Smuggler, and the Captain Casuist
• Chapter XVII - Light from the Man of War
• Chapter XVIII - Cross-Questions and Crooked Answers
• Chapter XIX - Travels with a Shyster
• Chapter XX - Stallbridge-Le-Carthew
• Chapter XXI - Face to Face
• Chapter XXII - The Remittance Man
• Chapter XXIII - The Budget of the "Currency Lass"
• Chapter XXIV - A Hard Bargain
• Chapter XXV - A Bad Bargain
• Epilogue - To Will H. Low
• Endnotes