Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson's Kidnapped was published as a boys' adventure novel in 1886. David Balfour is a 17 year old whose evil uncle has him kidnapped to steal his inheritance. David manages to escapes, but falls in dangerous company in the Scottish Highlands. It seems fitting that Stevenson's novel was Winston Churchill's favorite, which he read while in hiding as an escaped prisoner in Africa (with which he also enjoyed cigars and whiskey) while serving as a young war correspondent. When the coast was clear, Churchill was transported safely back to England to assume a life of politics.
Table of Contents
Chapter I. I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
Chapter II. I Come to My Journey's End
Chapter III. I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
Chapter IV. I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
Chapter V. I Go to the Queen's Ferry
Chapter VI. What Befell at the Queen's Ferry
Chapter VII. I Go to Sea in the Brig "Covenant" of Dysart
Chapter IX. The Man with the Belt of Gold
Chapter X. The Siege of the Round-House
Chapter XI. The Captain Knuckles Under
Chapter XII. I Hear of the "Red Fox"
Chapter XIII. The Loss of the Brig
Chapter XV. The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
Chapter XVI. The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
Chapter XVII. The Death of the Red Fox
Chapter XVIII. I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
Chapter XIX. The House of Fear
Chapter XX. The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks
Chapter XXI. The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh
Chapter XXII. The Flight in the Heather: The Moor
Chapter XXIV. The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel
Chapter XXVI. End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
Chapter XXVII. I Come to Mr. Rankeillor
Chapter XXVIII. I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
Chapter XXIX. I Come Into My Kingdom
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