Kidnapped

1886

Stevenson's 1886 adventure, set in the Highlands after the Jacobite rising. David Balfour is sold aboard a brig by his uncle, is shipwrecked, and crosses Scotland as a fugitive with the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart after the Appin murder.

Preface to the Biographical Edition
Dedication
Chapter I I Set Off upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
Chapter II I Come to My Journey’s End
Chapter III I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
Chapter IV I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
Chapter V I Go to the Queen’s Ferry
Chapter VI What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry
Chapter VII I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart
Chapter VIII The Round-House
Chapter IX The Man with the Belt of Gold
Chapter X The Siege of the Round-House
Chapter XI The Captain Knuckles Under
Chapter XII I Hear of the “Red Fox”
Chapter XIII The Loss of the Brig
Chapter XIV The Islet
Chapter XV The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
Chapter XVI The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven
Chapter XVII The Death of the Red Fox
Chapter XVIII I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
Chapter XIX The House of Fear
Chapter XX The Flight in the Heather: the Rocks
Chapter XXI The Flight in the Heather: the Heugh of Corrynakiegh
Chapter XXII The Flight in the Heather: the Moor
Chapter XXIII Cluny’s Cage
Chapter XXIV The Flight in the Heather: the Quarrel
Chapter XXV In Balquhidder
Chapter XXVI End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
Chapter XXVII I Come to Mr. Rankeillor
Chapter XXVIII I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
Chapter XXIX I Come into My Kingdom
Chapter XXX Good-Bye