Kidnapped
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Robert Louis Stevenson. (2007). Kidnapped. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Robert Louis Stevenson. 2007. Kidnapped. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped. Books on Tape, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.
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Throughout his life, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was tormented by poor health. Yet despite frequent physical collapses—mainly due to constant respiratory illness—he was an indefatigable writer of novels, poems, essays, letters, travel books, and children’s books. He was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, of a prosperous family of lighthouse engineers. Though he was expected to enter the family profession, he studied instead for the Scottish bar. By the time he was called to the bar, however, he had already begun writing seriously, and he never actually practiced law. In 1880, against his family’s wishes, he married an American divorcée, Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was ten years his senior; but the family was soon reconciled to the match, and the marriage proved a happy one.
All his life Stevenson traveled–often in a desperate quest for health. He and Fanny, having married in California and spent their honeymoon by an abandoned silver mine, traveled back to Scotland, then to Switzerland, to the South of France, to the American Adirondacks, and finally to the south of France, to the South Seas. As a novelist he was intrigued with the genius of place: Treasure Island (1883) began as a map to amuse a boy. Indeed, all his works reveal a profound sense of landscape and atmosphere: Kidnapped (1886); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); The Master of Ballantrae (1889).
In 1889 Stevenson’s deteriorating health exiled him to the tropics, and he settled in Samoa, where he was given patriarchal status by the natives. His health improved, yet he remained homesick for Scotland, and it was to the “cold old huddle of grey hills” of the Lowlands that he returned in his last, unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston (1896).
Stevenson died suddenly on December 3, 1894, not of the long-feared tuberculosis, but of a cerebral hemorrhage. The kindly author of Jekyll and Hyde went down to the cellar to fetch a bottle of his favorite burgundy, uncorked it in the kitchen, abruptly cried out to his wife, “What’s the matter with me, what is this strangeness, has my face changed?”—and fell to the floor. The brilliant storyteller and master of transformations had been struck down at forty-four, at the height of his creative powers.
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August 29, 2016
In 1751, after the untimely deaths of his parents, Scotsman David Balfour, the 17-year-old protagonist and narrator of Stevenson’s classic adventure yarn, travels to his father’s childhood home to meet with his uncle, Ebenezer. Instead of a warm welcome, Ebenezer pays the captain of a pirate ship to kidnap his nephew and transport him to America. On board, David meets dashing Highlander Alan Breck Stewart, and together they manage to take over the ship, beginning a friendship that continues through several land-based adventures. One of these involves witness (and escaping blame for) a murder. Scottish actor Rintoul does an amazing job of delivering a bouquet of brogues—including David’s mild-mannered narration, his uncle’s croaky, angry snarl, and Alan Stewart’s almost musical, supremely confident pronouncements.
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- content: Care to travel across Scotland with a native guide? Interested in experiencing local hospitality? Are you willing to do it against your will to seek out your rightful inheritance? Then join David Balfour on his 1751 quest, guided by the guileful Alan Breck. Narrator Jim Weiss's brisk pace and unpretentious voice make listeners feel as if they're hearing an intimate account of the story. Portraying the characters, Weiss brings bravado and a Scots brogue into play. He blusters as a clan leader and gratingly connives as devious Uncle Ebenezer. As David, Weiss is eager or apprehensive as the situation merits--whether the character is shipwrecked at night, hiding for his life by day, or cave-bound and delirious with sickness. A.R. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
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- content: Stevenson's classic novel of murder, betrayal, and adventure on the high seas tells of the trials of young David Balfour, who is kidnapped by his miserly Uncle Ebenezer and carried off to the Carolinas. While Shakespearean actor Ralph Cosham does an especially good job with Scottish accents, his main narrative seems somewhat flat, conveying little of the enthusiasm you might expect from a young boy telling his harrowing tale. P.B.J. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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- content: The American ear must pay close attention to this marvelous performance of the classic children's adventure. Robbie Coltrane is excellent with guttural Scottish enunciation, and he goes in and out of character like a virtuoso. Because his accents are thick and take concentration to understand, this is not a good book to listen to while driving. Coltrane brings out the prickly intensity of Alan Breck Stewart, the naive uprightness of David Balfour and the miserly grasping of David's uncle. The abridgment is well done, and the story, as always, races along. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- content: In an attempt to collect his inheritance from his father's estate, young David Balfour finds himself pressed aboard the ship of an evil captain and crew. His eventual escape during a shipwreck leads to even more exciting travails and danger. Since much of the Stevenson's writing centers on Scotland and the Scots character, narrator Steven Crossley reads this tale as its author might have. Adept at the language of the region and times, Crossley deftly brings one of literature's best-known stories to the ears of contemporary listeners. His renditions of the sea chanteys and poetry mixed into the prose showcase his breadth of talent. Those who enjoy the classics will find both story and performance delightful. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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