Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is at once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Donald McFarlan and a foreword by Alasdair Gray. Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last liv
Kidnapped: Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Donald McFarlan and a foreword by Alasdair Gray
โ Scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Publisher
- Penguin Books;Proquest LLC
- Year
- 2007;2012
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141441798
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
After being kidnapped by his villainous and miserly uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes with the help of Jacobite fugitive Alan Breck and becomes involved in the struggle of Scottish Highlanders against English rule.
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