Kidnapped: Robert Loius Stevenson (Original Version)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013723641
Publisher:	Maran State Books
Publication date:	01/05/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	456 KB

About the Author

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3,
1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a
leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He
was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of
his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put
it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge
Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir
Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he
was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of
literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look
beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875