The Last Verse of Long John Silver

The real Long John Silver from Treasure Island was father to the real Wendy Darling from Peter Pan. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote him a letter after writing Treasure Island saying, I've got to be honest with you, I based Long John Silver on you. Has anyone read Treasure Island? Yes, I have. It's extraordinary that we've read it at all, because for a long time, no one read his books. He was seen as just a terrible author. To the point that when in 1973 they published a 2000 page Oxford anthology of English literature, he wasn't mentioned in it at all. And now he's one of the 26 most translated authors in the world,. above Edgar Allan Poe,