Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Kidnapped
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For readers who love sea peril, rugged journeys, and friendships tested by clashing loyalties, David and Alan’s adventure offers danger, moral choices, and divided political loyalties.
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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a historical adventure novel about David Balfour, a young Scot whose search for his inheritance sends him into captivity and flight across the Highlands. Readers return for its dangerous journeys, sharp sense of place, and unlikely friendship between a cautious boy and a fiercely loyal outlaw.
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In Scotland in 1751, seventeen-year-old David Balfour loses his father and sets out to seek help from his uncle Ebenezer at the House of Shaws. David expects to find family and a place in the world. Instead, he meets a miserly man who seems frightened by his arrival. The neglected house and his uncle’s evasions suggest that David’s family history holds more than he has been told.
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Who’s who
- David Balfour
- David is a seventeen-year-old orphan who seeks help from his uncle and becomes Alan’s unlikely companion.
- Alan Breck Stewart
- Alan is a proud Highland supporter of the Stuart cause who becomes David’s companion and protector.
- Ebenezer Balfour
- Ebenezer is David’s suspicious, miserly uncle, whose dealings threaten his nephew’s liberty and claim to an inheritance.
- Captain Hoseason
- Hoseason commands the Covenant and cooperates with Ebenezer in carrying David away against his will.
- The divided Highlands
- Highland clans and government forces form opposing groups whose loyalties shape the dangers facing David and Alan.
About this edition
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- LengthAbout 84,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 5 h 35 min
- Listening time9 h 15 min
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary; paperback, hardcover and large print at cost
- LanguagesEnglish and 12 other languages