Kidnapped: Adapted for Young Readers (Children's Thrift Classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486293548 ISBN 13: 9780486293547

Publisher: Dover Children's, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 96 Publisher: Dover Publications In a tale of high adventure and gripping drama of young David Balfour Struggles to regain his rightful inheritance after being Kidnapped sent to sea And Shipwrecked The story of his harrowing experiences and dangerous relationship with a Scottish rebel who has a price on his head has thrilled countless readers. Aidged.

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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: Dover Children's
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0486293548
• ISBN 13: 9780486293547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96