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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751
Contributor(s): Mrs Stevenson (Introduction by), Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author)

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ISBN: 1539713113     ISBN-13: 9781539713111
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $8.06  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2016
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
Lexile Measure: 930(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 7.01" W x 10" L (0.64 lbs) 160 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 142365
Reading Level: 4.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Kidnapped

'The Classic Adventure Novel'

Being Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson

With a preface by Mrs. Stevenson

Kidnapped is an historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.

The full title of the book gives away major parts of the plot and creates the false impression that the novel is autobiographical. It is Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The central character and narrator is 17-year-old David Balfour. (Balfour is Stevenson's mother's maiden name.) His parents have recently died, and he is out to make his way in the world. He is given a letter by the minister of Essendean, Mr. Campbell, to be delivered to the House of Shaws in Cramond, where David's uncle, Ebenezer Balfour, lives. On his journey, David asks many people where the House of Shaws is, and all of them speak of it darkly as a place of fear and evil.

 
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