Kidnapped (Lake Illustrated Classics, Collection 2)

AGS Secondary,Stevenson, Robert Lewis

ISBN 10: 0785407200 / ISBN 13: 9780785407201

Published by Ags Pub, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kidnapped (Lake Illustrated Classics, Collection 2)
• Publisher: Ags Pub
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0785407200
• ISBN 13: 9780785407201
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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From the Publisher

Robert Louis Stevenson always considered "Kidnapped," the tale of 17-year-old David Balfour's adventures in the remote islands and highlands of Scotland with renegade soldier Alan Breck Stewart, to be his greatest novel, but when the classic adventure tale was published in 1886, it was missing much of what its author held dear. His English publisher had excised many of the Scottish words and phrases he had used to evoke the suspense of the novel. From simple misreadings to deliberate revisions, subsequent printed editions represented major departures from Stevenson's handwritten text. Now Barry Menikoff has restored the author's language and punctuation, as well as the authentic Scots quality of his diction. In doing so, he has given readers a clearer picture of both Stevenson's skill as a storyteller and the novel's social and political context.