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The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson fibbed a fantastic tale through his historical fiction adventure novel, Kidnapped. Kidnapped narrates the story of David Balfour, who is a young man living in the Lowlands of the southern part of Scotland. David’s parents are both dead leaving him an orphan. About seventeen years of age, David decides to go and seek fortune. The novel has a setting around the 18th-century Scottish events. Many of the characters that are depicted in the novel are real people and the situation that is depicted is a reflection from the real world scenario that was happening at the contemporary period.
David has Alan Breck Stewart as his friend aboard the ship in which his Uncle Ebenezer had him kidnapped to be sold into slavery in the Cariolanus. Alan is a Scottish soldier and a Jacobite. After quite a significant amount of adventure, fight and killings, David and Alan get a passage back to the mainland. Then they get separated temporarily. David has two nasty encounters with beggarly guides and even avoids getting stabbed.
In the course of the events, when David accidentally meets the Red Fox, Colin Roy Campbell and stops him for direction, a sniper kills Campbell. David is marked as a conspirator and flees for his life and again gets united with Alan. They spent days and nights hiding from the government soldiers. The two face a lot of adventure and David falls seriously ill twice from which he was nursed back to health and finally they reach the ominous House of Shaws where his paranoid Uncle Ebenezer lives. David with the help of Alan and the lawyer Mr. Rankeillor successfully coaxes and talks his uncle into giving David two-thirds of the estate’s income as long as uncle Ebenezer lives. The story thus ends in a positive note where David eventually find his fortune.
The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson fibbed a fantastic tale through his historical fiction adventure novel, Kidnapped. Kidnapped narrates the story of David Balfour, who is a young man living in the Lowlands of the southern part of Scotland. David’s parents are both dead leaving him an orphan. About seventeen years of age, David decides to go and seek fortune. The novel has a setting around the 18th-century Scottish events. Many of the characters that are depicted in the novel are real people and the situation that is depicted is a reflection from the real world scenario that was happening at the contemporary period.
David has Alan Breck Stewart as his friend aboard the ship in which his Uncle Ebenezer had him kidnapped to be sold into slavery in the Cariolanus. Alan is a Scottish soldier and a Jacobite. After quite a significant amount of adventure, fight and killings, David and Alan get a passage back to the mainland. Then they get separated temporarily. David has two nasty encounters with beggarly guides and even avoids getting stabbed.
In the course of the events, when David accidentally meets the Red Fox, Colin Roy Campbell and stops him for direction, a sniper kills Campbell. David is marked as a conspirator and flees for his life and again gets united with Alan. They spent days and nights hiding from the government soldiers. The two face a lot of adventure and David falls seriously ill twice from which he was nursed back to health and finally they reach the ominous House of Shaws where his paranoid Uncle Ebenezer lives. David with the help of Alan and the lawyer Mr. Rankeillor successfully coaxes and talks his uncle into giving David two-thirds of the estate’s income as long as uncle Ebenezer lives. The story thus ends in a positive note where David eventually find his fortune.
Robert Louis Stevenson or Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850. He was a famous Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is extremely popular among all ages of literature lovers on account of his brilliant works of the likes of Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child’s Garden of Verses. These books are usually the constant companions of every book lover. Stevenson was afflicted with serious bronchial issues for the major part of his life. He was born and educated in Edinburg but he kept on travelling extensively and writing profusely in spite of his continual poor health.
He was a popular social figure among the literary circles of London. Noted contemporary personalities such as Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley provided him encouragement and fed him matter for his books. Treasure Island was his most brilliant creation that brought infinite fame, popularity and accolades for him. His father Thomas Stevenson was an eminent engineer.
Stevenson had been quite ill and so had enough opportunity to ponder on his own mortality. Since childhood, he suffered from chronic lung ailment and showed symptoms of tuberculosis, which caused breathing problems to the extent of spitting up blood.
Stevenson also composed poetry, mostly lyrical poetry and a range of lively verses. His A Child’s Garden of Verses is a creation of beauty and pathos. This Scottish lyrical poetry expressed his pain of separation from Scotland.
In 1890, R.L. Stevenson settled in Samoa. It was during this time that he became increasingly aware of the European and American influence in the South Sea islands. As a result, his bent of mind turned away from romance and adventure fiction towards murkier realism. He died from a stroke in his island home in 1894, quite young, at the age 44. R.L. Stevenson enjoyed celebrity status throughout his life. His works were held in extreme reverence across the world, and in 2018 he enjoyed the honour of being ranked just below Charles Dickens as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.
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2. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
3. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
6. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
7. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
8. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
9. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
10. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
11. Moby Dick or The Whale by Melville Herman
12. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. Animal Farm by George Orwell
14. Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
15. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
16. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
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