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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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Ebenezer Balfour cheats his brother out of the family inheritance, tries to murder his nephew David, and when that fails has him abducted and sold into slavery.
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