KIDNAPPED COLLINS — ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics I have seen wicked men and fools a great many of both and I believe they both get paid in the end but the fools first Orphaned as a young teenager Lowlander David Balfour s only relative is his guardian and uncle Ebenezer Ill thought of and disliked by many it s not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule A tale of high seas adventure loyalty and fighting the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson s novel from becoming just a boys adventure novel Moving tender but intrinsically Austen in style with it s satirical portrayal of the vanity of society in eighteenth century England Persuasion celebrates enduring love and hope

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics I have seen wicked men and fools a great many of both and I believe they both get paid in the end but the fools first Orphaned as a young teenager Lowlander David Balfour s only relative is his guardian and uncle Ebenezer Ill thought of and disliked by many it s not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule A tale of high seas adventure loyalty and fighting the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson s novel from becoming just a boys adventure novel Moving tender but intrinsically Austen in style with it s satirical portrayal of the vanity of society in eighteenth century England Persuasion celebrates enduring love and hope