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Kidnapped (Illustrated)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Seventeen-year-old David Balfour journeys to claim his inheritance, only to be betrayed by his uncle and sold into slavery aboard a ship bound for the American colonies.

"Kidnapped (Illustrated)" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a historical fiction adventure novel. Seventeen-year-old David Balfour journeys to claim his inheritance, only to be betrayed by his uncle and sold into slavery aboard a ship bound for the American colonies.

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I WILL begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.

Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing, he took my hand in both of his and clapped it kindly under his arm.

“Well, Davie, lad,” said he, “I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.”

And we began to walk forward in silence.

“Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?” said he, after awhile.

“Why, sir,” said I, “if I knew where I was going, or what was likely to become of me, I would tell you candidly{4} Essendean is a good place indeed, and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother, since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary; and, to speak truth, if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will.”

Contents

  1. 01Contents
  2. 02Illustrations
  3. 03Chapter I I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
  4. 04Chapter II I Come to My Journey’s End
  5. 05Chapter III I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
  6. 06Chapter IV I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
  7. 07Chapter V I Go to the Queen’s Ferry
  8. 08Chapter VI What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry
  9. 09Chapter VII I Go to Sea in the Brig “Covenant” of Dysart
  10. 10Chapter VIII the Round-House
  11. 11Chapter IX the Man with the Belt of Gold
  12. 12Chapter X the Siege of the Round-House
  13. 13Chapter XI the Captain Knuckles Under
  14. 14Chapter XII I Hear of the “Red Fox”
  15. 15Chapter XIII the Loss of the Brig
  16. 16Chapter XIV the Islet
  17. 17Chapter XV the Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
  18. 18Chapter XVI the Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
  19. 19Chapter XVII the Death of the Red Fox
  20. 20Chapter XVIII I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
  21. 21Chapter XIX the House of Fear
  22. 22Chapter XX the Flight in the Heather: The Rocks
  23. 23Chapter XXI the Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh
  24. 24Chapter XXII the Flight in the Heather: The Moor
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Cluny’s Cage
  26. 26Chapter XXIV the Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel
  27. 27Chapter XXV in Balquhidder
  28. 28Chapter XXVI End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
  29. 29Chapter XXVII I Come to Mr. Rankeillor
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
  31. 31Chapter XXIX I Come Into My Kingdom
  32. 32Chapter XXX Good-Bye

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
188 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers