Kidnapped
READING AGE 16+
Kidnapped (1886) - written three years after Stevenson’s blockbuster hit Treasure Island - tells the story of David Balfour, a young Scot kidnapped by brigands during the Jacobite Rebellion who teams with master swordsman Alan Breck Stewart to cross battle-torn Scotland and claim his rightful inheritance. Kidnapped was well received and sold well during Stevenson’s lifetime. There have been about 21 movie and TV versions of the book made, most notably by Disney in 1960.
“A masterpiece.” — Henry James.
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Did you love Kidnapped? Then you should read The Diamond as big as The Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald!
First published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, The Diamond as big as The Ritz is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s under-rated masterpieces.
John T. Unger is a sixteen-year-old boy from an affluent family in Hades,……
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