Kidnapped (Companion Library) - Couverture rigide

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

 
9780448054742: Kidnapped (Companion Library)

Synopsis

London 1965. Oxford University Press. The World's Classics nº 297. 198 pp. 16x10. Tela. Texto en inglés.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers. G. K. Chesterton, said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Présentation de l'éditeur

Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called.

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