Kidnapped
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
This edition looks at the Scottish identity through the text of Stevenson’s classic. The duality of Scottish life – the mercantile, respectable Lowland Scot, as represented by David Balfour, and the romantic, rebellious Highlander, Alan Breck Stewart – runs deep in the psyche and literature of Scotland. Although Stevenson claimed that Kidnapped was simply an adventure tale….Read More
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