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Librivox recording of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Read by Mark F. Smith.
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina.
A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person. David warns him of a plan by the brig's captain and crew to overpower him and seize the money, and then finds himself fighting alongside Alan in a battle royale. By good fortune, Alan is handy with a sword and they have access to the firearms locker, and the pair so completely defeat the crew that barely enough hands remain to sail her. Limping to port, she is holed by rocks, and David finds himself a castaway.
Being in Alan's presence continues to be a chancy business. David is talking to Colin Roy Campbell, the King's Factor who has been oppressing Alan's people, when the man is shot to death, and David is chased as an accomplice. The two "take to the heather" and barely survive near brushes with redcoats as they thread through the Trossachs and other highland ranges of Scotland. Only after an arduous weeks-long trek through territory where they are actively hunted do they emerge in the more settled districts around the river Forth, only to find guards upon the bridge. With no money remaining, they must somehow cross to Queensferry, find Ebenezer's lawyer, and lay claim to David's inheritance in order to send Alan safely on to France. (summary by Mark F. Smith)
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Read by Mark F. Smith.
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina.
A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person. David warns him of a plan by the brig's captain and crew to overpower him and seize the money, and then finds himself fighting alongside Alan in a battle royale. By good fortune, Alan is handy with a sword and they have access to the firearms locker, and the pair so completely defeat the crew that barely enough hands remain to sail her. Limping to port, she is holed by rocks, and David finds himself a castaway.
Being in Alan's presence continues to be a chancy business. David is talking to Colin Roy Campbell, the King's Factor who has been oppressing Alan's people, when the man is shot to death, and David is chased as an accomplice. The two "take to the heather" and barely survive near brushes with redcoats as they thread through the Trossachs and other highland ranges of Scotland. Only after an arduous weeks-long trek through territory where they are actively hunted do they emerge in the more settled districts around the river Forth, only to find guards upon the bridge. With no money remaining, they must somehow cross to Queensferry, find Ebenezer's lawyer, and lay claim to David's inheritance in order to send Alan safely on to France. (summary by Mark F. Smith)
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June 24, 2020
Subject: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Subject: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Hugely enjoyable. Thank you to the reader - very well cast.
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RenLiberty
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March 19, 2020
Subject: Amazing!
Subject: Amazing!
Great reader...I wish there were more readers like him on Librivox. I am still in the middle of the story, but I have throughly enjoyed it so far. A reader can make or break the story they are reading. This reader is excellent.
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TwinkieToes
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March 22, 2018
Subject: Good story!
Subject: Good story!
Great story, and Mark's reading is excellent.
The ending is quite ambiguous, isn't it? It leaves the reader/listener hanging.
Now that I've finished the story, I need to go back and listen to the prefatory material again, to understand the background for the story idea. It didn't sink in the first time around. :)
The only technical issue is that there was a high-pitched whistle through some of the files.
The ending is quite ambiguous, isn't it? It leaves the reader/listener hanging.
Now that I've finished the story, I need to go back and listen to the prefatory material again, to understand the background for the story idea. It didn't sink in the first time around. :)
The only technical issue is that there was a high-pitched whistle through some of the files.
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lanternland
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February 16, 2018
Subject: Excellent!
Subject: Excellent!
Excellent book and Mark Smith is the perfect reader! Ten stars!
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griff Abbott
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September 25, 2015
Subject: A Great Story Well Told
Subject: A Great Story Well Told
Narrator Mark F. Smith does an excellent job of telling Robt. L. Stevenson's great tale, one which necessarily includes a fair amount of dialogue in dialect. Smith must count himself among the best of the Librivox narrators of which, sadly there are too few.
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