An edition of Kidnapped (1886)

Kidnapped

the adventures of David Balfour

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An edition of Kidnapped (1886)

Kidnapped

the adventures of David Balfour

Reader's digest ed.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.6 (14 ratings) ·
  • 123 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 21 Have read

A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

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English
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222

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1751, 18th century, 19th century

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Kidnapped
2018, Standard Ebooks
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Kidnapped
2014, W F Howes Ltd
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Kidnapped
2012, Penguin Random House
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Kidnapped
2009, Penguin Random House
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Kidnapped
1990, Priory Books
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Kidnapped
1989, Hippo
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Kidnapped
March 22, 1987, Bounty Books
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Kidnapped: the adventures of David Balfour
1986, Reader's Digest Association
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1900, Brown Watson
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"Contains the complete text of ... first published in 1886"--T.p. verso.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8, Fic
Library of Congress
PR5484 .K5 1986

The Physical Object

Pagination
222 p. :
Number of pages
222

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2745517M
Internet Archive
kidnappedadventu0000stev
ISBN 10
0895772329
LCCN
86070328
OCLC/WorldCat
14337000
Library Thing
24257
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1928757

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KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense.

Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound page of all my writing. The one I'm proud of and that I delight in. Rowland Hilder is famous for his paintings of the English countryside but his work in book illustration covered a much wider canvas. His drawing for KIDNAPPED were first published in 1930 and have undeservedly, been long out of print.

A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

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