Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book Summary Information
Author: Robert Louis StevensonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-01
ISBN: 0439295785
Number of pages: 288
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Book Reviews of Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
Book Review: Original-text edition reveals original intent, adult work.
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Louis Stevenson, one of the most undervalued authors (by adult readers, at least) in English literature, created in _Kidnapped_ a fast-paced adventure tale; a subtle examination of Scottish history and culture; and a pair of unforgettable characters -- the sensible young Lowland protagonist, David Balfour, and his "wild Hielandman" mentor, Alan Breck Stewart. Stevensonian scholar Barry Menikoff offers a challenging new approach to the old favourite in this handsome edition transcribed from the original manuscript in the Huntington Library (and, for the final chapters, from the 1886 serialised version). The result is a text that is closer to the author's original intent than any edition yet published. In his illuminating introduction, itself a model of critical clarity and stylistic grace, Menikoff emphasizes both the mythic appeal of Stevenson's narrative of David Balfour's odyssey and what he terms the "starkness of its realism." The editor's analysis of the author's economical employment of description as the agent of atmosphere and emotion places RLS in the vanguard of a revolution in prose technique that would culminate in the experiments of Hemingway. Menikoff makes a strong case for reexamining the so-called "children's classic" in the light in which it was received by early readers and critics (including Stevenson's friend and literary champion Henry James) -- as a mature work of serious fiction.
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