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Kidnapped

Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.

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“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”

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Kidnapped, ch. 14 (1886).

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“Am I no a bonny fighter?”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Kidnapped

Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).

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