title: Kidnapped: Unabridged edition (Immortal Classics)
author: Robert L. Stevenson
description: Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.". He remains one of the most widely read 19th Century novelists.
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  # Kidnapped
  
  
  ## Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  KIDNAPPED
  
  
  BEING
  
  
  MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF
  
  
  DAVID BALFOUR
  
  
  IN THE YEAR 1751
  
  
  HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN
  
  
  A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS;
  
  
  HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART
  
  
  AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES;
  
  
  WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE
  
  
  HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER
  
  
  BALFOUR OF SHAWS, FALSELY
  
  
  SO CALLED
  
  
  
  
  
  WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY
  
  
  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
  
  
  WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### PREFACE
  
  
    
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ### THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION
  
  
  
  
  
  While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in
  
  
  Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in
  
  
  the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband
  
  
  preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henley's enthusiasm swept him
  
  
  off his feet. However, after several plays had bee