Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
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English
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Set in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Kidnapped is a thrilling adventure story in which young David Balfour flees for his life across the Scottish Highlands in the company of the rebel Alan Breck Stewart. This is a new edition of a key work of 19th-century fiction and Scottish literature, with critical introduction and notes.
the introductory essay ... is remarkably and enjoyably full, a little masterpiece of concision that will reward those coming to the novel for the first time, and those for whom it is an old friend.
Robert Louis StevensonIan Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, BerkeleyContributors: Ian Duncan has written widely on Scottish literature. His books include Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton UP, 2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (with Douglas S. Mack) (Edinburgh UP, 2012). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Doyle's The Lost World, Scott's Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and Travel Writing 1700-1830 (with Elizabeth Bohls).
the introductory essay ... is remarkably and enjoyably full, a little masterpiece of concision that will reward those coming to the novel for the first time, and those for whom it is an old friend.
Robert Louis StevensonIan Duncan, Professor of English, University of California, BerkeleyContributors: Ian Duncan has written widely on Scottish literature. His books include Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Princeton UP, 2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (with Douglas S. Mack) (Edinburgh UP, 2012). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Doyle's The Lost World, Scott's Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, and Travel Writing 1700-1830 (with Elizabeth Bohls).