Kidnapped

"Kidnapped is a finely honed, stirring adventure story about the orphan David Balfour, who, after escaping through the Scottish Highlands from the hands of his villainous uncle, becomes involved in Scotland's struggle for independence. In this edition, Professor Barry Menikoff draws on a rare manuscript to reproduce the text as Stevenson originally wrote it, restoring Stevenson's masterly punctuation and recovering distinctive and often singular language that was altered or deleted in subsequent editions. The effect is to deepen and illuminate the novel's Scottish texture." "This edition also includes the drawings that accompanied the text during its initial serialization, and a gazetteer of place-names."--BOOK JACKET.