Kidnapped

David Balfour is seventeen, orphaned, and walking toward an inheritance he does not know he has. Within days he will be cheated by his uncle, kidnapped onto a slave ship, shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, and thrown into the company of Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite fugitive who is the most charming, reckless, and infuriating companion in English fiction. Their flight across the Highlands after the Appin murder is one of the great journeys in literature, and the friendship they forge in the process is the real treasure Stevenson was after. Written in 1886 at the peak of Stevenson's powers, Kidnapped combines the pace of Treasure Island with a depth of characterization that makes it his most complete achievement as a novelist. A Raven's Gate Classics edition with Fanny Stevenson's Preface and the complete unaltered text.