Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped (Annotated)

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Produktbeschreibung

Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading The story follows young David Balfour, whose parents have recently died. Set on making his own way in the world, he heads towards his uncle's house and finds he is frenzied and paranoid. In addition, the house is in a ruinous estate; and David soon discovers that his father might be older than his uncle, making him the real heir to the estate. This doesn't sit well with his uncle, who still wants to keep the ruinous property, but promises to reveal the truth about his father to David the next morning..."They were dogs and thieves; they had stolen me from my own country..." Will David ever find out exactly what happens with his inheritance? What is the mystery that involves his father and uncle? If you want to find out, immerse yourself in this tale! Kidnapped is a historical fiction novel by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. This novel is so well written, carefully crafted, and popular that it attracted praise from many other popular writers such as Jorge Luís Borges, Henry James, and Hilary Mantel. Get your copy of this timeless classic today!

Produktdetails

• Sastrugi Press Classics
• Verlag: Sastrugi Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9781649221360
• ISBN-10: 1649221363
• Artikelnr.: 61432213

Autorenporträt

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack London. Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but he was seen for much of the 20th century as a second-class writer. He became relegated to children's literature and horror genres, condemned by literary figures such as Virginia Woolf (daughter of his early mentor Leslie Stephen), and he was gradually excluded from the canon of literature taught in schools. His exclusion reached its nadir in the 1973 2,000-page Oxford Anthology of English Literature where he was entirely unmentioned, and The Norton Anthology of English Literature excluded him from 1968 to 2000 (1st-7th editions), including him only in the 8th edition (2006). The late 20th century brought a re-evaluation of Stevenson as an artist of great range and insight, a literary theorist, an essayist and social critic, a witness to the colonial history of the Pacific Islands, and a humanist. He was praised by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill or sheer imaginative power" and a pioneer of the Age of the Story Tellers along with H. Rider Haggard. He is now evaluated as a peer of authors such as Joseph Conrad (whom Stevenson influenced with his South Seas fiction) and Henry James, with new scholarly studies and organisations devoted to him. Throughout the vicissitudes of his scholarly reception, Stevenson has remained popular worldwide. According to the Index Translationum, Stevenson is ranked the 26th most translated author in the world, ahead of Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.