Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel of Scotland in 1751, in which young David Balfour, cheated of his inheritance by his miserly uncle, is kidnapped onto a ship bound for the Carolinas and falls in with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart.

Start reading31 chapters, about 81,000 words

Famous quotes

• I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house.

  Chapter IIn context

• I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

  Chapter XIVIn context

  • Good & Evil
  • Wisdom

• I’ve a grand memory for forgetting, David.

  Chapter XVIIIIn context

  • Comedy

Contents

1. Dedication
2. Chapter II Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
3. Chapter III Come to My Journey’s End
4. Chapter IIII Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
5. Chapter IVI Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
6. Chapter VI Go to the Queen’s Ferry
7. Chapter VIWhat Befell at the Queen’s Ferry
8. Chapter VIII Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart
9. Chapter VIIIThe Round-HOUSE
10. Chapter IXThe Man with the Belt of Gold
11. Chapter XThe Siege of the Round-HOUSE
12. Chapter XIThe Captain Knuckles Under
13. Chapter XIII Hear of the “Red Fox”
14. Chapter XIIIThe Loss of the Brig
15. Chapter XIVThe Islet
16. Chapter XVThe Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
17. Chapter XVIThe Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
18. Chapter XVIIThe Death of the Red Fox
19. Chapter XVIIII Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
20. Chapter XIXThe House of Fear
21. Chapter XXThe Flight in the Heather: The Rocks
22. Chapter XXIThe Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh
23. Chapter XXIIThe Flight in the Heather: The Moor
24. Chapter XXIIICluny’s Cage
25. Chapter XXIVThe Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel
26. Chapter XXVIn Balquhidder
27. Chapter XXVIEnd of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
28. Chapter XXVIII Come to Mr. Rankeillor
29. Chapter XXVIIII Go in Quest of My Inheritance
30. Chapter XXIXI Come into My Kingdom
31. Chapter XXXGood-bye