Kidnapped Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 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. Kidnapped provided much of the inspiration for John Buchan’s The Thirty Nine Steps and a generation of subsequent thrillers. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.