Long John Silver

Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, but the name was taken from an otherwise unknown historical criminal.

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Fictional character - Novel - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

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In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is a pirate and was the ship's quartermaster under the notorious Captain John Flint. Silver was said to have been the only man whom Flint ever feared. Like many of Stevenson's characters, there is more than a modicum of duality in the character; ostensibly Silver is a hard-working and likeable seaman, and it is only as the plot unfurls that his villainous nature is gradually revealed. In the novel he is the only one of the former crew of Captain Flint, that had joined in the search for treasure, who could escape and that even with some amount of the treasure.

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Pirate - Quartermaster - John Flint

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