Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1886 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
Download or read book Kidnapped Catriona written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Kidnapped" (1886) and later fiction such as "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland's past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in "Kidnapped", whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Stevenson wrote the sequel "Catriona" with the title David Balfour, but during serialisation in England the public became confused, thinking it might be a reprint of "Kidnapped". At publisher Cassell's request, the title was changed to "Catriona", after Balfour's daughter.
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Download or read book Catriona written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...
Download or read book Treasure Island and Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Download or read book The Scottish Novels written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 869 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson’s fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson’s contemporaries to the present day.
Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by SeaWolf Press. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped was written as a boys' novel and was first published in Young Folks magazine in 1886. It is an historical fiction story set in Scotland and written in English with some Lowland Scot dialogue.
Download or read book The Desperate Reader written by Westside School for the Desperate and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desperate ReaderBy Westside School for the Desperate, Desperate Press (Authored with), Tyler Bagwell (Designed by), Stevie Edwards (Contributions by), Howard Friedman (Contributions by), Josh Gaines (Contributions by), Zachary Green (Contributions by), Sarah Jedd (Contributions by), Kevin Kern (Contributions by), Jacob Mays (Contributions by), Nick Narbutas (Contributions by), Nate Olison (Contributions by), Katie Spero (Contributions by), Stephanie Lane Sutton (Contributions by), Julia Victor (Contributions by)
Download or read book Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of ClassicReader.com, Stephane Theroux presents the full text of the book entitled "Kidnapped." The book was written by Scottish novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) and was published in 1886. It is the story of the character David Balfour, who attempts to reclaim his stolen inheritance from his uncle.
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Balfour's adventures on the high seas include a shipwreck, murder, flight, and intrigue--and are among the most evocative in classic literature. Stevenson's adventure is now available in this Scholastic Classics paperback edition.
Download or read book The Book of Ebenezer le Page written by G.B. Edwards and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
Download or read book White Sheep of the Family written by J. C. Kang and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lord has been assassinated, and only an awkward boy can uncover the mastermind.Banished from the capital, ten-year-old Zheng Tian joins the Black Lotus Clan. As son of a great lord, he is utterly unprepared for this new life-- a fact complicated by his awkwardness. As of yet untrained in the arts of stealth, he is thrust into an investigation into a lord's murder. The Legends of Tivara Includes: A Dragon's Guide to Hatching a Rebellion Scions of the Black Lotus Thorn of the Night BlossomsWhite Sheep of the FamilyWretches of the Trench The Dragon Songs Saga Prelude to Insurrection Songs of InsurrectionOrchestra of TreacheriesDances of DeceptionSymphony of Fates The Dragonstones Chronicles Masters of Deception Heirs of the Sundered Empire
Download or read book Kidnaped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped is the story of David Balfour, a daring and proud boy, who finds himself involved in a double series of adventures: those produced by his own personal situation - an orphan whose inheritance has been usurped - and those derived from his encounter with Alan Breck, who immerse you in the sociopolitical background of the aftermath of the 18th century English civil war. All this narrated in Stevenson's clean and musical prose.
Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
