The Adventures of David Balfour: Kidnapped & Catriona (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. An 18th-century Scottish saga of Jacobites, the Appin Murder, and peril at seaBy Robert Louis Stevenson
Length19h 57m
About this audiobook
The Adventures of David Balfour: Kidnapped & Catriona brings together Robert Louis Stevenson's two great Scottish historical romances, tracing David's passage from dispossessed Lowland youth to morally tested witness of political intrigue, exile, and love. Written in Stevenson's brisk, lucid prose, the novels combine adventure narrative with psychological subtlety, setting private growth against the aftermath of the Jacobite rising and the tensions between Highland and Lowland Scotland. The illustrated edition further emphasizes the works' vivid landscapes, dramatic encounters, and theatrical sense of motion. Robert Louis Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 1850, was deeply shaped by Scotland's divided histories, oral traditions, and legal-political memory. Though a cosmopolitan traveler and invalid exile, he repeatedly returned imaginatively to his native country, transforming its conflicts into fiction of remarkable clarity and resonance. His fascination with divided loyalties, moral courage, and identity informs David Balfour's trials as surely as it animates his better-known tales of doubles and adventure. This volume is warmly recommended to readers who value historical fiction that is both exciting and intellectually serious. It offers not merely pursuit, danger, and romance, but a searching portrait of conscience amid unstable politics, making it essential Stevenson.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, Historical Fiction
Length19 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11Catriona
2Introduction
12Part I The Lord Advocate (pt. 1)
3Author Biography
13Part I The Lord Advocate (pt. 2)
4Historical Context
14Part I The Lord Advocate (pt. 3)
5Synopsis (Selection)
15Part II Father and Daughter (pt. 1)
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6The Adventures of David Balfour: Kidnapped & Catriona (Illustrated Edition)
16Part II Father and Daughter (pt. 2)
7Kidnapped (pt. 1)
17Analysis
8Kidnapped (pt. 2)
18Reflection
9Kidnapped (pt. 3)
19Memorable Quotes
10Kidnapped (pt. 4)
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The Greatest Scottish Books of All time (Annotated)Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, John Buchan, O. Douglas, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie976h 37m$2 · $0.00
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La isla del tesoroRobert Louis Stevenson6h 38m$9 · $0.00
The Old Pacific CapitalRobert Louis Stevenson2h 29m$1 · $0.00
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two RosesRobert Louis Stevenson7h 27m$1 · $0.00
Poems on TravelRobert Louis Stevenson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Goldsmith, John Henry Newman, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lord George Gordon Byron3h 44m$2 · $0.00
A Christmas SermonRobert Louis Stevenson1h 30m$2 · $0.00
Treasure Island (Including the History Behind the Book)Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, Captain Charles Johnson33h 26m$2 · $0.00
Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson4h 33m$1 · $0.00
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Essays in the Art of WritingRobert Louis Stevenson2h 2m$2 · $0.00
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
Desperate MeasuresBrenda Jackson8h 59m5 (1)$28 · $0.00
Forgotten SeasonDonald L. Robertson10h$20
CollateralBrian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson13h 8m$23
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m$33 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m5 (1)$29 · $0.00
The Newly Witch GameRobyn Peterman4h 39m$15
Louis L’Amour’s Trio of TalesLouis L’Amour2h 8m$10
Northern ShadowsDaniel Greene12h 52m$23
Jubal Stone: U.S. Marshal: Blood Trail To Hell: A Western Adventure NovelCasey Nash3h 42m$18 · $0.00
Sons of War Series Box SetNicholas Sansbury Smith49h 30m$40
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The Complete Novels (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)Robert Louis Stevenson100h 59m$2 · $0.00
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge & Pan MichaelHenryk Sienkiewicz112h 55m$1 · $0.00
The Road to Gundagai (The Matilda Saga, #3)Jackie French12h 31m$33 · $0.00
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Illustrated) (Annotated)Charles Dickens1h 8m$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m$33 · $0.00
The Complete Jaipur TrilogyAlka Joshi33h 44m$53 · $0.00
The Count of Monte Cristo (With Original Illustrations)Alexandre Dumas54h$1 · $0.00
Northern ShadowsDaniel Greene12h 52m$23
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m$33 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m$53 · $0.00
MusashiEiji Yoshikawa53h 20m$30
The Eighth Life (for Brilka)Nino Haratischwili41h 10m$53 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m$33 · $0.00
Their Castilian OrphanAnna Belfrage14h 45m$27
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge & Pan MichaelHenryk Sienkiewicz112h 55m$1 · $0.00
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Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery11h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Viennese DressmakerKathryn Gauci11h 46m$23 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m$33 · $0.00
Under the Light of the Italian MoonJennifer Anton12h 28m$23 · $0.00
THE COMPLETE PALLISER NOVELS (All 6 Novels in One Edition)Anthony Trollope172h 46m$2 · $0.00
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary EditionMargaret Walker15h 43m$25 · $0.00
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