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Book Synopsis Kidnapped by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 1886 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
Book Synopsis Catriona by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Catriona written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kidnapped & Catriona by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped & Catriona written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Kidnapped" (1886) and later fiction such as "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland's past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in "Kidnapped", whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Stevenson wrote the sequel "Catriona" with the title David Balfour, but during serialisation in England the public became confused, thinking it might be a reprint of "Kidnapped". At publisher Cassell's request, the title was changed to "Catriona", after Balfour's daughter.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price...
Book Synopsis White Sheep of the Family by : J. C. Kang
Download or read book White Sheep of the Family written by J. C. Kang and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lord has been assassinated, and only an awkward boy can uncover the mastermind.Banished from the capital, ten-year-old Zheng Tian joins the Black Lotus Clan. As son of a great lord, he is utterly unprepared for this new life-- a fact complicated by his awkwardness. As of yet untrained in the arts of stealth, he is thrust into an investigation into a lord's murder. The Legends of Tivara Includes: A Dragon's Guide to Hatching a Rebellion Scions of the Black Lotus Thorn of the Night BlossomsWhite Sheep of the FamilyWretches of the Trench The Dragon Songs Saga Prelude to Insurrection Songs of InsurrectionOrchestra of TreacheriesDances of DeceptionSymphony of Fates The Dragonstones Chronicles Masters of Deception Heirs of the Sundered Empire
Book Synopsis The Book of Ebenezer le Page by : G.B. Edwards
Download or read book The Book of Ebenezer le Page written by G.B. Edwards and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
Book Synopsis The Desperate Reader by : Westside School for the Desperate
Download or read book The Desperate Reader written by Westside School for the Desperate and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desperate ReaderBy Westside School for the Desperate, Desperate Press (Authored with), Tyler Bagwell (Designed by), Stevie Edwards (Contributions by), Howard Friedman (Contributions by), Josh Gaines (Contributions by), Zachary Green (Contributions by), Sarah Jedd (Contributions by), Kevin Kern (Contributions by), Jacob Mays (Contributions by), Nick Narbutas (Contributions by), Nate Olison (Contributions by), Katie Spero (Contributions by), Stephanie Lane Sutton (Contributions by), Julia Victor (Contributions by)
Book Synopsis Great Illustrated Classics by : Mark Twain
Download or read book Great Illustrated Classics written by Mark Twain and published by Classics. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pearson Education Library Collection offers you over 1200 fiction, nonfiction, classic, adapted classic, illustrated classic, short stories, biographies, special anthologies, atlases, visual dictionaries, history trade, animal, sports titles and more
Download or read book Abigail Adams written by Natalie S. Bober and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman who witnessed the gathering storm of the American Revolution and saw the battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near her home. Through her letters to friends and family, Abigail Adams lives in history--and now in this award-winning biography by Natalie Bober. Black & white illustrations .
Book Synopsis Kidnapped by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains Illustarations by N.C.Wyeth.About Author Robert Louis Stevenso ANNOTATIONSSummaryCharacter ListCharacter Analysis1.Alan Breck Stewart2.David Balfour3.Ebenezer BalfourThemesSymbolsMotifsImportant Quotations Explained.Kidnapped was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. It was an almost instant hit among young boys, and why not? This novel embodies the very things that many such audience members would find most interesting: shipwrecks, crime, suspense, danger, adventure...even murder.Kidnapped is the story of Davie's struggle to claim his inheritance and find his place in the world. Alan Breck Stewart who is a loyal Scotsman who helps Davie claim his rightful place in the world. A wanted man, Alan is on the run when he ends up on the boat with Davie, a move that changes both their destinies.The novel opens with Davie Balfour getting a letter. The letter, from his recently-deceased father, tells Davie to head to the house of Shaws. Davie is excited that he'll get to meet a lord and he hopes to find his fortune, or at least get a job, in the Shaw's household. So Davie heads to Edinburgh.But when Davie arrives at the house of Shaws, all he finds is his uncle Ebenezer Balfour, who is a very unpleasant man. He attempts to kill Davie, though Davie doesn't understand why. However, Davie convinces his uncle to take him to see Mr. Rankeillor, the family lawyer. Davie hopes he will finally understand how he is connected to the house of Shaws.On the way to the lawyer's office, Ebenezer makes Davie stop and visit the ship Covenant, which Ebenezer has financed, and the ship's captain, Mr. Hoseason. Mr. Hoseason seems happy to meet young Davie, and takes him on a tour of the boat. As he does, Ebenezer gets into the rowboat and goes back ashore, leaving Davie on board the Covenant. It turns out that Ebenezer is planning to have Hoseason sell Davie as a slave to a plantation in America. But by the time Davie understand this, it's too late. The boat has set sail with the addition of one seventeen-year-old future slave.Kidnapped is set in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and is narrated by the teenager David Balfour.The recently orphaned David leaves rural Essendean to seek his fortune with his relatives, the Balfours of the House of Shaws. He meets his uncle Ebenezer and immediately suspects the shifty and miserly man of trying to avoid giving David his due inheritance. His suspicions are confirmed when his uncle sends him up a ruined stair-tower in the dark, intending David to plunge to his death.Before David can confront his uncle, Ransome, the cabin-boy for the brig Covenant arrives with a message for Ebenezer from Captain Hoseason concerning their joint venture. Ebenezer decides to go to the Hawe's Inn at Queen's Ferry to resolve the matter. David follows in the hope of speaking to a lawyer, Mr. Rankeillor.There, David learns rumours that Ebenezer murdered David's father Alexander, for the Shaw estate. While David knows the allegations are false, he cannot fathom how Ebenezer came to hold the estate.Despite some misgivings, David is delighted when he is invited to tour the Covenant. Suddenly sensing foul play, he shouts for help and is knocked unconscious - he has been kidnapped!Realizing Ebenezer means to cheat him of his rightful inheritance, David learns from the ship's crew that he is to be sold into slavery in the Carolina plantations. David is not mistreated on board the Covenant, but he is horrified by the first mate, Mr Shuan, who in a drunken rage beats Ransome to death.At Cape Wrath, the ship runs a boat under. The sole survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite, "a condemned rebel, and a deserter, and a man of the French Kings" (p. 157) comes aboard. Concerned that having a Jacobite on board could be considered treasonous, Hoseason and the men plot against him. David, however, admires Alan and chooses to take his side.
Book Synopsis Treasure Island by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Treasure Island written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
Download or read book Slave to Fortune written by D. J. Munro and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave to Fortune is an award-winning historical novel. Tom Cheke's world is turned upside-down when he is kidnapped and enslaved by Barbary corsairs. Tom carves out a promising, new life only to have it shattered again when he falls into the hands of a knight of the Order of St John and into a turbulent world of ciphers, spies and assassinations.
Book Synopsis Kidnapped (Illustrated) by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped (Illustrated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kidnapped (Illustrated)" (Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751) by Robert Louis Stevenson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Kidnaped by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnaped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped is the story of David Balfour, a daring and proud boy, who finds himself involved in a double series of adventures: those produced by his own personal situation - an orphan whose inheritance has been usurped - and those derived from his encounter with Alan Breck, who immerse you in the sociopolitical background of the aftermath of the 18th century English civil war. All this narrated in Stevenson's clean and musical prose.
Book Synopsis Kidnapped by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kidnapped. David Balfour by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped. David Balfour written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kidnapped by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
