Kidnapped
By: Robert Louis Stevenson ; with an introduction by John Seelye and a new afterword by Claire Harman
Series: Signet Classic
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780451531438
Subjects: Teenage boys; Historical fiction; Disinheritance; Kidnapping victims; Teenagers; Fiction; Boys; Adventure fiction; Adventure stories; Jacobites; History
Description: The story of young David Balfour, an orphan, whose miserly old uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. But justice triumphs--after a spirited odyssey which includes a shipwreck, a hazardous journey across Scotland, intrigue, and narrow escapes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws; title: I Come to My Journey's End; title: I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle; title: I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws; title: I Go to the Queen's Ferry; title: What Befell at the Queen's Ferry; title: I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart; title: The Roundhouse; title: The Man With the Belt of Gold; title: The Siege of the Roundhouse; title: The Captain Knuckles Under; title: I Hear of the "Red Fox"; title: The Loss of the Brig; title: The Islet; title: The Lad With the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull; title: The Lad With the Silver Button: Across Morvin; title: The Death of the Red Fox; title: I Talk With Allen in the Wood of Lettermore; title: The House of Fear; title: The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh; title: The Flight in the Heather: The Moor; title: Cluny's Cage; title: The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel; title: In Balquhidder; title: End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth; title: I Come to Mr Rankeillor; title: I Go in Quest of My Inheritance; title: I Come Into My Kingdom; title: Good-Bye