Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Kidnapped
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- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers, 01/2011
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780007420131
- Item number:
- 1066311
- Volume:
- 288 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2011
- Weight:
- 158 g
- Format:
- 177 x 111 mm
- Thickness:
- 24 mm
- Release date:
- 1.1.2011
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Kidnapped |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 49.90* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 69.90* |
Blurb
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
'I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.'
Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfour's only relative is his guardian and uncle, Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many, it's not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.
He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule. A tale of high-seas adventure, loyalty and fighting, the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson's novel from becoming 'just' a boys adventure novel.
Biography
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. He was the son of an engineer, and he hoped to be an engineer himself. He began training, but his poor health prevented his continuing. Partly because of his health troubles - mainly tuberculosis - he spent a large part of his life outside Britain.
