Kidnapped

Published in 1886

Categories: For TeensAdventure

David Balfour, soaked and alone, climbs over wet rocks beside a rushing stream on a misty island
Painting: N. C. Wyeth, On the Island of Earraid (1913)

In 1751, after his father dies, seventeen-year-old David Balfour walks to the House of Shaws to meet his uncle Ebenezer, a miser who tries to kill him on a broken stair and then has him kidnapped onto a ship bound for the Carolinas. At sea David meets Alan Breck Stewart, a proud and dangerous Highland Jacobite, and after a shipwreck the two flee together across the Scottish Highlands, wanted for a murder they did not do. Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel came out in 1886.

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1 Chapter 1: I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws About 5 min 2 Chapter 2: I Come to My Journey’s End About 10 min 3 Chapter 3: I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle About 10 min 4 Chapter 4: I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws About 15 min 5 Chapter 5: I Go to the Queen’s Ferry About 10 min 6 Chapter 6: What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry About 10 min 7 Chapter 7: I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart About 10 min 8 Chapter 8: The Round-House About 10 min 9 Chapter 9: The Man with the Belt of Gold About 15 min 10 Chapter 10: The Siege of the Round-House About 10 min 11 Chapter 11: The Captain Knuckles Under About 5 min 12 Chapter 12: I Hear of the “Red Fox” About 15 min 13 Chapter 13: The Loss of the Brig About 10 min 14 Chapter 14: The Islet About 15 min 15 Chapter 15: The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull About 15 min 16 Chapter 16: The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven About 10 min 17 Chapter 17: The Death of the Red Fox About 10 min 18 Chapter 18: I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore About 15 min 19 Chapter 19: The House of Fear About 10 min 20 Chapter 20: The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks About 15 min 21 Chapter 21: The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh About 10 min 22 Chapter 22: The Flight in the Heather: The Moor About 15 min 23 Chapter 23: Cluny’s Cage About 15 min 24 Chapter 24: The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel About 15 min 25 Chapter 25: In Balquhidder About 10 min 26 Chapter 26: End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth About 15 min 27 Chapter 27: I Come to Mr. Rankeillor About 10 min 28 Chapter 28: I Go in Quest of My Inheritance About 10 min 29 Chapter 29: I Come into My Kingdom About 10 min 30 Chapter 30: Good-Bye About 5 min