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Kidnapped : Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, Hardback Book

Kidnapped : Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 Hardback

Illustrated by W.B. Hole

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Set in Scotland in 1751, Kidnapped tells of how young David Balfour, orphaned, and betrayed by his uncle Ebenezer who should have been his guardian, is kidnapped, and falls in with Alan Breck, the unscrupulous but heroic champion of the Jacobite cause.

The novel revolves around their friendship and 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.

The illustrations by William Hole are from the first edition, with an Afterword by Ned Halley.

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