In this episode of The 5 Minute Muse, Sean Fitzpatrick extends readers an invitation to unearth the buried riches of Robert Louis Stevenson’s neglected classic, Treasure Island. With its plucky, young protaganist, Jim Hawkins, and his villianous but charming adversary, Long John Silver, this bracingly realistic romance offers adventurers of all ages a most palatable remedy for the insular sentimentality of much contemporary fiction.