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Kidnapped
Contributor(s): Blake, Sheba (Author), Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author)

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ISBN: 1548270830     ISBN-13: 9781548270834
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $11.39  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sea Stories
Lexile Measure: 930(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" L (1.04 lbs) 198 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 142365
Reading Level: 4.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 2.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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. Kidnapped is set around 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred near Ballachulish in 1752 in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters were real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically. The full title of the book 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.
 
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