Kidnapped (novel)
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Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel h
First American edition, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1886
Kidnapped sketch of route of ship and David's walk across Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson at age 35 in 1885
Alexander Stoddart's Kidnapped statue at Corstorphine, Edinburgh, depicting Alan Breck Stewart and David Balfour at their final parting on Corstorphine Hill (unveiled 2004). Breck holds the handmade cross with silver button, cleverly designed to carry a message to an illiterate colleague.
Catriona (novel)
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Catriona is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped. It was first published in the magazine Atalanta from December 1892 to September 1893. The novel
Kidnapped (novel)
…to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893. The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in the Lowland Scots language…
David Balfour in office of the legal firm