dis- : apart, away, not,
to the opposite
Examples: digression, disappear, dissect and so on.
ab- : from,
away, off
Examples: abolish, absent, abnormal and
so on.
dic/ dict : to say, to tell
Examples: contradict, prediction, dictate and so on.
in-
: not, without
Examples: inappropriate, invalid, improbable and so on.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist,
poet, essayist, and travel writer.
His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as
the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by
many other writers, including Jorge Luis
Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton,
who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of
his pen, like a man playing spillikins".
Treasure
Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of
"buccaneers and buried gold". It was
originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the
title Treasure Island, or
the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain
George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell &
Co.
Treasure Island is
traditionally considered a coming-of-age
story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It
is also noted as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual
for children's literature. It is one of the most
frequently dramatized of all novels. Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including
such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands,
and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.
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