Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Hardcover Book

Title: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Hardcover Book.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson.
Illustrations By: Frank Godwin.
Afterword By: Henry James.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Readers Digest Complete Text 1990.
Publisher: Readers Digest.
Year First Published: 1886.
Format: Hardcover Book.
Printed By: RR Donnelly & Sons, USA.
Page Count: 222 pages.
Size: Width: 16cm
      Height: 23.5cm
      Thickness: 3.5cm
Info: Well bound hardcover immaculately presented by Readers Digest. Gilt lettering on spine and cover.
Wonderful illustrations by Frank Godwin, first published in 1924 by Holt, Rinehart and Winton.
Maps by David Linroth.
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots, a Germanic language that evolved from an earlier incarnation of English.
Kidnapped 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. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically.
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."
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
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Condition: Excellent, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. A well preserved classic, no inscriptions, a very clean copy.
Price: R 195.00 Inc Vat.