Kidnapped

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Роберт Льюис Стивенсон. Kidnapped

KIDNAPPED

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Editor’s Introduction. I

II

III

IV

V

A NOTE ON THE TEXT

Map

Dedication

Contents

I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws

I Come to My Journey’s End

I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle

I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws

I Go to the Queen’s Ferry

What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry

I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart

The Round-House

The Man with the Belt of Gold

The Siege of the Round-House

The Captain Knuckles Under

I Hear of the Red Fox

The Loss of the Brig

The Islet

The Lad with the Silver Button

The Lad with the Silver Button

The Death of the Red Fox

I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore

The House of Fear

Chapter Title

The Flight in the Heather

The Flight in the Heather

Cluny’s Cage

The Flight in the Heather

In Balquidder

We Pass the Forth

I Come to Mr Rankeillor

I Go in Quest of My Inheritance

I Come into My Kingdom

Good-bye

NOTES

GLOSSARY

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Preface by Louise Welsh

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Forbidden to speak, with his right arm bound close to his body because of lung haemorrhaging, he was being kept in a darkened room on account of an attack of ophthalmia … In this tormenting time he asked for paper to be pinned to a board.31

It was a remarkably productive period, yielding Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses and Kidnapped. Perhaps the long confinements reminded Stevenson of his childhood, when it seemed he was more in than out of bed, for in his poem “The Land of Counterpane”, he evokes the site of childhood illness.

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