Kidnapped

Product Description

Each volume in the Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword brief biography of the author & a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley. Set in Scotland in 1751 " Kidnapped" tells of how young David Balfour orphaned & betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian is kidnapped & falls in with Alan Breck the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause. The novel revolves around their friendship & their differences suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Modern critics see the novel as more than a boy's adventure yarn; at the heart of it lies what Henry James described as the 'really excellent' chapters of the flight in the heather that raise the novel to greatness."