Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped: 100th Anniversary Collection Robert Louis Stevenson

More than 100 illustrations.

SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Robert Louis Stevenson 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first or early edition. Our version has: Over 100 original illustrations. Don't be fooled by other versions with missing or made-up pictures. Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions. A beautiful cover that replicates an early edition cover. The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original. Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables.

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. Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically.