Kidnapped tells the story of two bloody family quarrels. In one, the aftereffects of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, in which Highland Scots unsuccessfully tried to replace George II of England with a descendant of the deposed Stuart king James II, continue to pit Highlanders against Englishmen. The other is an intrigue among the Balfours, involving dispossessed heirs, attempted murder, and, of course, kidnapping. These two storylines converge around young David Balfour, his corrupt uncle Ebenezer, and the wanted Jacobite Alan Breck (who had "a grand memory for forgetting" when it came to some kinds of trouble). Breck and David survive a shipwreck, witness an assassination, and travel the breadth of the Highlands before putting all matters, political and familial, to right. As rollicking and incident-crammed as Treasure Island, Kidnapped proved so popular that it occasioned Catriona (1893), the only sequel Stevenson wrote to one of his works.
Kidnapped -
Robert Louis Stevenson
Borders
2007
195 páginas
6h 30m
ISBN-13: 9781587264917
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