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    Kidnapped and Catriona

    By Robert Louis Stevenson

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    In "Kidnapped" (1886) and later fiction such as "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), Stevenson examined some of the extreme and contrary currents of Scotland's past, often projecting a dualism of both personality and belief. This dualism is most famous in "Kidnapped", whose two central characters are David Balfour, a Lowland Whig, and Alan Breck Stewart, a Highland Jacobite. The novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself. Stevenson wrote the sequel "Catriona" with the title David Balfour, but during serialisation in England the public became confused, thinking it might be a reprint of "Kidnapped". At publisher Cassell's request, the title was changed to "Catriona", after Balfour's daughter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPolygon
    Release dateJun 24, 2013
    ISBN9780857907080
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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    • 2/5
      2 stars awarded on the basis of three for Kidnapped and none at all for Catriona, which sucks.
    • 4/5
      Kidnapped is the better known of the two books, probably because it has been considered and marketed as a boys' adventure novel with, notably, no major female characters. Young David Balfour is betrayed and sold by his miserly uncle and escapes by a series of mishaps and adventures which involve him in the convoluted Jacobite politics of Scotland. In Catriona his attempts to clear an innocent man of murder charges are at cross purposes with important men in the government and a plot in which James Moore is involved. Catriona is the daughter of Moore aka Drummond, and David has fallen hopelessly in love with her. However their courtship seems all at cross purposes and further complicated by politics. Both books are interesting even if the politics are somewhat hard to follow.