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