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Kidnapped; or, The Lad with the Silver Button

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Based on 53,269 Ratings and 1,719 Reviews

Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson always considered Kidnapped, the tale of 17-year-old David Balfour's adventures in the remote islands and highlands of Scotland with renegade soldier Alan Breck Stewart, to be his greatest novel, but when the classic adventure tale was published in 1886, it was without much of what its author held dear. His English publisher had excised many of the Scottish words and phrases... More
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PublisherHuntington Library Press
BindingHardcover (168 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages400
ISBN-100873281772
ISBN-13978-0873281775
Publication Date06/1999
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About Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) : Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He w... more
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About Barry Menikoff (Editor) : Barry Menikoff is a published editor. Published credits of Barry Menikoff include Kidnapped: or, The Lad with the Silver Button (Modern Library Classics), The Beach of Falesa (Sp 194).
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7/20/2011 C.K. Volnek tagged as: I read

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