Kidnapped
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  • Published: 3 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780451531438
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $16.99

Kidnapped

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19 Nov 2024
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6 Sep 2012
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1 Jul 2010
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15 Jan 2008
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23 Nov 2022
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25 Mar 2010
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child

Robert Louis Stevenson's glorious passport to romance and high adventure.

Here is the story of young David Balfour, whose miserly 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 that includes a shipwreck, a hazardous journey across Scotland with a daredevil companion, intrigues, narrow escapes, and desperate fighting. Rich in action and characterization, this exhilarating novel was considered by Stevenson to be his finest work of fiction. 

With an Introduction by John Seelye
and an Afterword by Claire Harman
  • Published: 3 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780451531438
  • Imprint: Signet
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $16.99
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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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