Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jan 1886 · Cosimo Classics
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"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
This jacketed hardcover edition of Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
This jacketed hardcover edition of Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that ...
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Woody FL
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September 28, 2026
You definitely can not go wrong with any Robert Louis Stevenson books....I definitely enjoyed most of his books.
About the author
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), ...
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