Kidnapped (Childrens Classics) - Hardcover

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517687836 ISBN 13: 9780517687833

Publisher: Children's Classics, 1989

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.  
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About this title

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.

About the Author:

Margot Livesey, a native of Scotland, is the author of Criminals and, most recently, The Missing World. She lives in Massachusetts and London.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Children's Classics
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0517687836
• ISBN 13: 9780517687833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 241
• Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth