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David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona

by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

BookID: 14133

Language:English

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 86.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Historical fictionScotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction

Description

"David Balfour" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novel published in 1893 as a sequel to "Kidnapped." The story follows young David Balfour as he struggles to secure justice for a wrongly accused man, only to be imprisoned on the Bass Rock until the trial concludes. He falls in love with Catriona Drummond, whose father proves unreliable and treacherous. Together with his friend Alan Breck, David must navigate political intrigue, romantic misunderstandings, and betrayal across Scotland, Holland, and France before finding his way home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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