num_pages: 344
description: First published as a serial in YOUNG FOLKS between May and July 1886 and now reprinted in an Everyman's edition on the centenary of Stevenson's death, KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Through he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth, Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet: "Here is the one sound page of all my writing; The one I'm proud of and that I delight in." Rowland Hilder is famous for his paintings of the English countryside but his work in book illustration covered a much wider canvas. His drawings for KIDNAPPED were first published in 1930 and have, undeservedly, been long out of print.
language: English
title: Kidnapped
titlecomplete: Kidnapped
characters: Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, David Balfour, James Stewart of the Glen, Alan Breck Stewart, Colin Campbell of Glenure
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Young Adult, Classics, Scotland, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 63515
places: Edinburgh, Scotland, Erraid, Scotland, Scotland, Limekilns, Fife, Scotland, Lochaber, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Queensferry, Scotland, Fife, Scotland, Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland, Morvern, Lochaber, Scotland, Ballachulish, Lochaber, Scotland, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, Torran Rocks, Scotland, Ettrick Forest, The Borders, Scotland, Argyll, Scotland
series: David Balfour
publisher: Everymans Childrens Classics