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rick_williams 's review for:
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
It says in the introduction to my edition that David Balfour, the young man who is kidnapped at the behest of his Uncle, is the character that Stevenson put most of his own personality into. He is certainly a mature 18 year old and there are some fantastic, witty exchanges with Alan Breck, his older fellow escapee. Stevenson writes beautifully about the countryside and with great admiration for the fortitude and courage of the Highlanders during what were times of great deprivation. The story is essentially an adventure, however the quality of the prose rightly set it out as a classic.