Kidnapped: Children Classic Hardcover - 1989

Considered one of Robert Louis Stevensn's best works, Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel, first published in Young Folks magazine from May to July 1886. The novel is considered a companion to Stevenson's Treasure Island. A Sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.

The full title of the book is Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson. 

The story is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. 

Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of Kidnapped and The Children's Garden of Verses as well as the adult book, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. During his short life Stevenson travelled the world from the South Pacific to the USA, Europe to Australia. He died at the age of 44 years old on a small Samoan island in the Pacific. -

Details

• Title Kidnapped: Children Classic
• Author Robert Louis Stevenson; N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
• Binding Hardcover
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 241
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Children's Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Date 1989
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9780517687833 / 0517687836
• Weight 1.69 lbs (0.77 kg)
• Dimensions 9.59 x 7.94 x 1.08 in (24.36 x 20.17 x 2.74 cm)
• Ages 09 to 12 years
• Grade levels 4 - 7
• Reading level 630
• Library of Congress subjects Adventure and adventurers - Fiction, Scotland - History - 18th century - Fiction
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 89033688
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC