Kidnapped (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1751
- Setting: Along the coast and amid the Highlands of Scotland
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Race, Escapes, Friendship, Eighteenth century, Inheritance or succession, Loyalty, Lawyers, Kidnapping, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Scotland or Scottish people
- Locales: Scotland
Characters Discussed
David Balfour, a boy in his late teens who has recently become an orphan. Having been left, as his inheritance, a letter of introduction addressed to his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, David decides to leave his home in Essendean in the hope that he can establish some type of relationship with his father’s brother. David begins his journey with confident expectations and is somewhat taken aback when he finds that his uncle’s home is in a general state of disrepair and that Ebenezer himself does not seem happy to see him. Nevertheless, David, as is...
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