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Kidnapped

By Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cover: On the Island of Earraid (illustration for Kidnapped, Scribner, 1913) by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) · Wikimedia Commons (photograph by David Flam via Flickr) · Public domain

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
  2. 2: I Come to My Journey’s End
  3. 3: I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
  4. 4: I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
  5. 5: I Go to the Queen’s Ferry
  6. 6: What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry
  7. 7: I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart
  8. 8: The Round-House
  9. 9: The Man with the Belt of Gold
  10. 10: The Siege of the Round-House
  11. 11: The Captain Knuckles Under
  12. 12: I Hear of the “Red Fox”
  13. 13: The Loss of the Brig
  14. 14: The Islet
  15. 15: The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
  16. 16: The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
  17. 17: The Death of the Red Fox
  18. 18: I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
  19. 19: The House of Fear
  20. 20: The Flight in the Heather: the Rocks
  21. 21: The Flight in the Heather: the Heugh of Corrynakiegh
  22. 22: The Flight in the Heather: the Moor
  23. 23: Cluny’s Cage
  24. 24: The Flight in the Heather: the Quarrel
  25. 25: In Balquhidder
  26. 26: End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
  27. 27: I Come to Mr. Rankeillor
  28. 28: I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
  29. 29: I Come into My Kingdom
  30. 30: Good-Bye