Kidnapped [antikvár]

Introduction Kidnapped: Robert Louis Stevenson's "Highest Point' From the moment Kidnapped first appeared in the pages oi Young Folks Paper in 1886, it met with the kind of success most writers only dream about. Like Robert Louis Stevenson's earlier novel, Treasure Island (1883), Kid- ^ napped was marketed as a "boy's tale" and published by j the magazine in weekly installments. Even today, it is easy r to see why readers clamored for the next edition of Young 1 Folks each week. The novel is a pure joy to read—an exciting adventure story that has captured the imaginations of such literary luminaries as J. M. Barrie, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and Arthur Conan Doyle. American novelist Henry James, Stevenson's Hfelong friend and contemporary, even went so far as to distinguish the characterization in Kidnapped as "the highest point that Mr. Stevenson's talent has reached." Kidnapped is an historical romance that brings actual events of Scotland's history to life with vivid landscapes and some of the most memorable characters in English