Kidnapped (Signet classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451525043 ISBN 13: 9780451525048

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

Students with lower reading abilities can enjoy some of the most important literature of our culture. This seventy-two book collection features easy-reading texts with extensive artwork on every page to capture students' attention.

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Review:

These inaugurate a new series of uniform classics, simplified so that little more than their bare essentials remain. Where there may be an excuse for a revision for young moderns of, say, the stilted quality of Defoe's Crusoe or a shortening of Kidnapped's lengthy descriptions - these are matters of individual taste. But it does seem that readers should be willing to take what the authors wrote originally. That case is strengthened by the bone-dryness of these revisions, all of which have been cut so extensively that little atmosphere remains, and the purpose-to introduce young readers to the classics-defeats itself. Attractive size and format and plentiful supplies of colored pictures make up for textual imperfections. Plastic covers. (Kirkus Reviews) --Kirkus Reviews

Book Description:

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0451525043
• ISBN 13: 9780451525048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240