Kidnapped

Murpurgo (Editor) Michael

ISBN 10: 1851497080 / ISBN 13: 9781851497089

Published by Antique Collectors Club, 1998

About this Item

Brand New Mint Copies. Ships euro 9.70 in Europe, UK included. World 11.90. Italy: local postal tariffs., Ill. bn: --, Ill. colori: 30+, Peso: 860 gr.

Seller Inventory # 4426-BB20

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kidnapped
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851497080
• ISBN 13: 9781851497089
• Binding: Rilegato
• Condition: nuovo
• Seller catalogs:
  • (800) Letteratura - Literature (800)
  • Narrativa 1837-1900 (823.8)
  • Inglese (820)

About this title

Synopsis

Set in Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion, young David Balfour leaves home and goes to the sinister House of Shaws. There, he finds himself kidnapped, the victim of his uncle's plot to cheat him of his inheritance, aboard a ship bound for America. He teams up with the Jacobite loyalist and spy, Alan Breck and they take on the ship's crew in a courageous battle but are soon shipwrecked. Later, they find themselves suspected of the murder of 'Red Fox', a notorious enemy of the Jacobeans. They flee across the Highlands in a perilous journey back to David's home where he finally claims his inheritance. First serialised in Young Folks magazine in 1886, and issued as a book later that year, Kidnapped provided much of the inspiration for John Buchan's The Thirty Nine Steps and a generation of subsequent thrillers.

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.