David Balfour sets out to claim an inheritance, is sold to a ship's captain instead, and washes up in the Highlands with a Jacobite fugitive for company.
Robert Louis Stevenson set Kidnapped in the aftermath of the 1745 rising, and the flight across Scotland gives the novel both its pace and its politics. The friendship between cautious Lowland David and the volatile Alan Breck Stewart carries the book, argued over at least as often as it is celebrated. Stevenson's prose is quick and concrete, which is why the novel has held its adult readership as firmly as the younger one it first found.
Why it still holds up:
• Adventure novel set in post-Jacobite Scotland
• Follows David Balfour and Alan Breck Stewart
• Historical background woven into the chase
• Penguin Classics edition of Stevenson's text
For readers of classic adventure, students and family reading, published by Penguin Classics and available at Boipoka.
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