The Wrecker
by Lloyd Osbourne Robert Louis Stevenson
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About This Book
The story is about a "sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery". It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island. Clues in a stamp collection are used to track down the missing crew and solve the mystery. It is only in the last chapter that different story elements become linked.[2] Stevenson described it as a "South Sea yarn" concerning "a very strange and defective plan that was accepted with open eyes for what seemed countervailing opportunities offered". Although the book sold well, reviews were mixed, wi...
Chapters (31)
- THE WRECKER
- PROLOGUE.
- IN THE MARQUESAS.
- THE YARN.
- 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.
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