311 pages
English language
Published Nov. 10, 1894 by Cassell.
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 aquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobities, with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws falsely so-called
4 stars
(1 review)
KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense.
Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound page of all my writing. The one I'm proud of and that I delight in. Rowland Hilder is famous for his paintings of the English countryside but his work in book illustration covered a much wider canvas. His drawing for KIDNAPPED were first published in 1930 and have undeservedly, been long out of print.
A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Subjects
- Fiction in English
- Scottish authors
- Scottish fiction