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The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of.

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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)

What interests me is the business of telling a story. Reading Stevenson was as great a revelation as stumbling across Wilkie Collins. This is the story of David Balfour, a Highland Whig, on the run through Scottish Highlands in the company of one of the great heroes of all time - Alan Breck, the Jacobite. It does what Ian McEwan always says fiction should do - shows rather than tells. Review by Nigel Williams, whose books include 'Fortysomething' (Kirkus UK)

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