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Kidnapped

By: Robert Louise Stevenson

Fiction Action & Adventure
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This book kind of fell into my lap a couple of weeks ago at the library. ?Although I was hoping to read a children's classic during the Victorian Celebration, this book was not on my original list -- I still have The Water Babies and At the Back of the North Windwaiting on the shelves. ?However, I was shelving books at the library and I noticed this one, which had a really nice cover. ?And since I had another copy at home, (though a different edition) I could kill two birds by reading a Victoria...n book and a book off my own shelves.

Anyhow. ?This book is both a Victorian and a historical fiction. ?Robert Louis Stevenson, a Victorian writer from Scotland, was writing about a character set in Scotland during the 1750s, after the Jacobite revolution. ?The story begins with young David Balfour, the poor son of a teacher who is now an orphan after his father's death. ?On the advice of the local minister, he travels on foot to meet his long-lost uncle, who was estranged from his father and is living like a miser in a great estate. ?Instead of being pleased to see his long-lost nephew, curmudgeonly Ebenezer first tries to trick him into falling down a tower, then hustles him off onto a ship to be sold into slavery in the Colonies. ?(I can't really count this as a spoiler, since the title of the book is, ahem, Kidnapped.)

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