Kidnapped E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

"Kidnapped" is a novel written by R.L.Stevenson in 1886. The story is told in first person by the protagonist. The book is set in Scotland in the years of the civil war, in the mid-1700 's, the historical period in which the company was preparing for the industrial revolution, which would upset the typical lifestyle of the era. David Balfour, after his father's death, decides to go in search of her heritage. Apart from his village Essendean, thanks to help from a pastor to seek his uncle Ebeneezer and claim his name: David Balfour of Shaws. Upon arrival finds Uncle very hostile to welcome him and the House is reduced to ruins. Nevertheless, Ebeneezer will offer food and a place to sleep, but secretly organises the kidnapping, with the complicity of a captain of a slave boat directly to the American plantations...

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Kidnapped

By

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I Set off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws

I Come to My Journey’s End

I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle

I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws

I Go to the Queen’s Ferry

What Befell at the Queen’s Ferry

I Go to Sea in the Brig “Covenant” Of Dysart

The Round-House

The Man with the Belt of Gold

The Siege of the Round-House

The Captain Knuckles Under

I Hear of the “Red Fox”

The Loss of the Brig

The Islet

15. The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull

16. The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven

17. The Death of the Red Fox

18. I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore

19. The House of Fear

20. The Flight in the Heather: The Rocks

21. The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh

22. The Flight in the Heather: The Moor

23. Cluny’s Cage

24. The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel

25. In Balquhidder

26. End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth

27. I Come to Mr. Rankeillor

28. I Go in Quest of My Inheritance

29. I Come into My Kingdom

30. Good-Bye

Chapter 1

I Set off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away.

Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing, he took my hand in both of his and clapped it kindly under his arm.

“Well, Davie, lad,” said he, “I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.” And we began to walk forward in silence.

“Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?” said he, after awhile.

“Why, sir,” said I, “if I knew where I was going, or what was likely to become of me, I would tell you candidly. Essendean is a good place indeed, and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother, since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary, and, to speak truth, if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will.”

“Ay?” said Mr. Campbell. “Very well, Davie. Then it behoves me to tell your fortune; or so far as I may. When your mother was gone, and your father (the worthy, Christian man) began to sicken for his end, he gave me in charge a certain letter, which he said was your inheritance. ‘So soon,’ says he, ‘as I am gone, and the house is redd up and the gear disposed of’ (all which, Davie, hath been done), ‘give my boy this letter into his hand, and start him off to the house of Shaws, not far from Cramond. That is the place I came from,’ he said, ‘and it’s where it befits that my boy should return. He is a steady lad,’ your father said, ‘and a canny goer; and I doubt not he will come safe, and be well lived where he goes.’”