Classic Literature "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson Companion Library

This hardcover children's book is "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson with Illustrations by Jo Polseno, Companion Library edition, copyright 1965. Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney. "David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina........." Add this book to your own collection or buy it for your favorite child.