In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I am 1/3 of the way through and every time I stop, I can't wait until the next time I can pick it up again! This is Romantic historical adventure fiction at its finest (that is, fiction from the Romantic school, with its stress on appeal to emotions --here, excitement, fear, sympathy, moral indignation, adm. It is a wonderful adventure with historical significance and action but with decidedly Scotch language. He faces misfortune after another for so. Things are getting nastier, and finally, Ebenezer tries to kill David. As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden's parents? Yet despite frequent physical collapses–mainly due to constant respiratory illness–he was an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters, travel books, and children’s books. Welcome back. I like it just read the sample and already want this book. Unable to add item to List. As so often is the case with assigned reading, I didn't have enough life experience to really appreciate it yet. I remember reading this quite a while ago when I was fairly little and remember it being quite confusing and uninteresting at that time. To see what your friends thought of this book. A young David Balfour didn't expect to be kidnapped when he sought his Scottish kin at the bleak and isolated house of Shaws. Why haven't I read more Stevenson? Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Shame on u for putting this sorry book to be read by anyone of any age. It's a gripping adventure book first and foremost - dude gets kidnapped, headed for a That makes him one of the most consistent authors I know of. Later on, I ended up reading Treasure Island by RLS and absolutely adored it, so I figured I'd give Kidnapped another go. A good friend of his, the Protestant Minister of Essendean, hands Davie a letter from his deceased father telling him to head to the house of Shaws. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Visit Amazon's Robert Louis Stevenson Page, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studied instead for the Scottish bar. I know nothing of the Scottish history of the period and yet understood the historical background pefectly. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. By the time he was called to the bar, however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he never actually practiced law. David's companion however is a real historical figure connected to a mysterious murder that really happened in Scotland in 1752. David Balfour, a Lowland boy, is sixteen when his father dies.