This is a hardback luxury edition of the classic adventure novel "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson. This edition was published by Reader's Digest Association in 1991 and features beautiful illustrations by Frank Godwin.
It would make a lovely present, suitable for readers young and old!
From Wikipedia:
- 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 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 Lowland Scots, a Germanic language that evolved from an earlier incarnation of English.
- 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.
Size: 23.5 x 16 x 2.5 cm approx.
224 pages
Condition: Excellent, as new. This book is in pristine condition - the photos don't do it justice!
Delivery: The book will be carefully packaged using, wherever possible, recycled/reused materials, and despatched via Royal Mail.
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