Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island and Kidnapped Pdf

FREE FAMOUS CLASSICS FOR BOYS: ROBINSON CRUSOE, TREASURE ISLAND AND KIDNAPPED PDF

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In a society shaped by the profound transformations of the Education Act, Robert Louis Stevenson stands apart from his late-Victorian contemporaries as a strikingly romantic artist, and literary celebrity. He held a very modern attitude to his profession and yet, nevertheless, somehow seemed to sacrifice life to literature. He, of course, disclaimed his commitment, telling an American admirer that he was "a person who Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe life to art, and who knows it is a far finer thing to be in love…" The record of his creativity suggests the opposite, only adding to the aura of enigma that still surrounds him. So Stevenson remains an elfin, paradoxical figure. Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were instant classics, each a brilliantly concise narrative of quasi-cinematic intensity. Both Jekyll and Hyde and Treasure Island were written incredibly fast, in a matter of days, or weeks. Perhaps this is why more than many writers in this seriesStevenson was a master at capturing fictional moments with a single vivid image. This was his forte. Anyway, to me, Kidnapped is his masterpiece, an unforgettable novel of action that would inspire writers as varied as Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, Graham Greene and Muriel Spark. It is also a fascinating meditation on the complexity of the Scots character, half Celt, half Saxon. As in Jekyll and Hydeit shows him obsessed Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe the divided self, and in the year of the independence vote, Kidnapped remains essential reading. I've chosen it for this series Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe represent Stevenson's profound Scottishness as well as his genius as a writer. The novel is deceptively simple. Although it's presented as a boys' story, rooted in historical reality, it also demonstrates Stevenson's artistic sleight-of-hand. Indeed, Kidnapped achieves at least three things simultaneously. First, it's an astounding action adventure in which Stevenson's command of narrative, prose that's pared to the bone, is never less than enthralling. As Treasure Island and Kidnapped reader, he leaves one Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe breathless with excitement and admiration. Henry James, no less, was a great fan of the "Flight in the Heather" sequence of chapters. For storytelling verve, turn to chapter 10, "The Siege of the Round House". Second, Kidnapped takes an historical event, the Appin murder of Maythe killing of "the Red Fox", and renders it into a compelling popular tale for the mass audience who first encountered it in the magazine Young Folks. Stevenson did not disdain the genre in which he was operating. Finally, Kidnapped stands out as an inspired and memorable study of the duality in the Scots character. David Balfour, the Whig, is a Lowland Scot of prudent Presbyterian stock whose shocking kidnap occurs as he sets out to claim his inheritance from his evil uncle, Ebenezer. Alan Breck Stewartdescribed by Balfour as "a condemned rebel, and a deserter, and a man of the French king's", represents the proud spirit of the Highlands after the Jacobite rebellion offiery, reckless, romantic and doomed, with a brilliant line in memorable dialogue. As a pair, they make an unforgettable, often contentious, double act, and both revel with Stevenson in the good Scots tongue. Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" one"bairn" child"blae" cheerless"chield" fellow"drammach" raw oatmeal"fash" bother"muckle" big"siller" money"unco" extremely"wheesht! The Scots dialect words somehow give Kidnapped an inexhaustible fire and brio, but its inner mood is sombre. Stevenson, in Balfour's voice, expresses this as he lives over again "the worst part of my adventures… Ransome carried below, Shaun dying on the round-house floor, or Colin Campbell the Red Fox grasping at the bosom of his coat…". Balfour survives, of course, but for almost everyone else their fate is death. Stevenson himself died suddenly of a stroke on the island of Samoa on 3 Decemberaged Kidnapped was written as a "boys' novel" and first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks from May to July The novel first appeared in book form from Cassell and Company in July Kidnapped was well-received on publication Treasure Island and Kidnapped has since attracted the admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, who praised its narrative brio, Jorge Luis Borges and Seamus Heaney, among many. An inferior sequel, Catrionawas published Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe The best novels Robert Louis Stevenson. A thrilling adventure story, gripping history and Treasure Island and Kidnapped study of the Scottish character, Kidnapped has lost none of its power Robert Treasure Island and Kidnapped introduces the series. Robert McCrum. Stevenson, in Balfour's voice, expresses this as he lives over again "the worst part of my adventures… Ransome carried below, Shaun dying on the round-house floor, or Colin Campbell the Red Fox grasping at the bosom of his coat…" Balfour survives, of course, but for almost everyone else their Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe is death. A note on the text Kidnapped was Treasure Island and Kidnapped as a "boys' novel" and first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks from May to July adventure classics for boys | 5minutespeace's Blog

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