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  1. Kidnapped
    Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
    Published: 1886
    Publisher:  The Floating Press, Auckland

    Originally written as a boys' adventure novel, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has received praise from a range of writers, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Set around events in eighteenth century Scotland, such as the "Appin Murder"... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Originally written as a boys' adventure novel, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has received praise from a range of writers, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Set around events in eighteenth century Scotland, such as the "Appin Murder" that happened in the wake of the Jacobite Rising, it skillfully and sympathetically portrays the political situation of the time. A sequel, titled Catriona , was published in 1893

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781775566779; 9781775414193
    Subjects: Historical fiction; Kidnapping ; Fiction; Adventure stories; Scotland ; History ; 18th century ; Fiction; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (396 p.)
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    Title; Contents; Kidnapped; Preface to the Biographical Edition; Dedication; Chapter I I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws; Chapter II I Come to My Journey's End; Chapter III I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle; Chapter IV I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws; Chapter V I Go to the Queen's Ferry; Chapter VI What Befell at the Queen's Ferry; Chapter VII I Go to Sea in the Brig "Covenant" Of Dysart; Chapter VIII The RoundHouse; Chapter IX The Man with the Belt of Gold; Chapter X The Siege of the Round-House; Chapter XI The Captain Knuckles Under

    Chapter XII I Hear of the "Red Fox"Chapter XIII The Loss of the Brig; Chapter XIV The Islet; Chapter XV The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull; Chapter XVI The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven; Chapter XVII The Death of the Red Fox; Chapter XVIII I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore; Chapter XIX The House of Fear; Chapter XX The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks; Chapter XXI The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh; Chapter XXII The Flight in the Heather: The Moor; Chapter XXIII Cluny's Cage; Chapter XXIV The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel

    Chapter XXV In BalquhidderChapter XXVI End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth; Chapter XXVII I Come to Mr. Rankeillor; Chapter XXVIII I Go in Quest of My Inheritance; Chapter XXIX I Come into My Kingdom; Chapter XXX Good-Bye; Endnotes;