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Kidnapped
Classic fiction
Kidnapped
Book 1 of the David Balfour series
288 pages · First published 1886
Young David Balfour goes to his uncle Ebenezer after his father’s death expecting information about his inheritance. Instead, his uncle arranges for him to be kidnapped and shipped away, launching David into a dangerous journey through eighteenth-century Scotland. He escapes with Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite whose politics and personality differ sharply from David’s own. Robert Louis Stevenson combines adventure, political history, friendship, and a disputed inheritance in a novel where surviving shipwreck and pursuit is only part of David’s effort to reclaim his rightful place.
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Kidnapping/captivity · Death and violence
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