Kidnapped (David Balfour Book 1)
Author: R.L. Stevenson
ISBN: 9789380028088
Price: Rs. 100.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
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Browse this title within our Summer Read collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 238 pages. Reference ISBN: 9789380028088.
About the Author
Throughout his life, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was tormented by poor health. Yet despite frequent physical collapses–mainly due to constant respiratory illness–he was an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters, travel books, and children’s books. He was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, of a prosperous family of lighthouse engineers. Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studied instead for the Scottish bar. By the time he was called to the bar, however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he never actually practiced law. In 1880, against his family’s wishes, he married an American divorcée, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was ten years his senior; but the family was soon reconciled to the match, and the marriage proved a happy one.All his life Stevenson traveled–often in a desperate quest for health. He and Fanny, having married in California and spent their honeymoon by an abandoned silver mine, traveled back to Scotland, then to Switzerland, to the South of France, to the American Adirondacks, and finally to the south of France, to the South Seas. As a novelist he was intrigued with the genius of place:Treasure Island(1883) began as a map to amuse a boy. Indeed, all his works reveal a profound sense of landscape and atmosphere: Kidnapped (1886); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); The Master of Ballantrae (1889).In 1889 Stevenson’s deteriorating health exiled him to the tropics, and he settled in Samoa, where he was given patriarchal status by the natives. His health improved, yet he remained homesick for Scotland, and it was to the “cold old huddle of grey hills” of the Lowlands that he returned in his last, unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston (1896).Stevenson dies suddenly on December 3, 1894, not of the long-feared tuberculosis, but of a cerebral hemorrhage. The kindly author of Jekyll and Hyde went down to the cellar to fetch a bottle of his favorite burgundy, uncorked it in the kitchen, abruptly cried out to his wife, “What’s the matter with me, what is this strangeness, has my face changed?”–and fell to the floor. The brilliant storyteller and master of transformations had been struck down at forty-four, at the height of his creative powers.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 9789380028088
- Publisher
- Rupa Publications India
- Pan-India Delivery
- Dispatches in 24–48 Hours across India
What is this book about?
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Who should read this book?
Recommended for readers who enjoy Summer Read and are looking for genuine, well-crafted literature by R.L. Stevenson.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love getting lost in this timeless adventure that proves great stories never age. Kidnapped follows young David Balfour as he’s thrown into danger, betrayal, and breathtaking journeys across Scotland. It’s fast-paced yet thoughtful, perfect when you want a gripping story without a heavy commitment. At this pocket‑friendly price, it’s an easy way to enjoy a true literary classic that still feels exciting, human, and deeply satisfying today.
- Published by Rupa Publications India.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 238.
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