Kidnapped

Also known as Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ...

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Kidnapped es una novela de aventuras de ficción histórica del autor escocés Robert Louis Stevenson, escrita como una novela para niños y publicada por primera vez en la revista Young Folks de mayo a julio de 1886. La novela ha atraído el elogio y la admiración de escritores tan diversos como Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges y Hilary Mantel. Una secuela, Catriona, fue publicada en 1893. La narrativa está escrita en inglés con algunos diálogos en Lowland Scots, una lengua germánica que evolucionó de una encarnación anterior del inglés. Kidnapped está ambientada en torno a eventos escoceses reales del siglo XVIII, en particular el "Appin Murder", que ocurrió tras el levantamiento jacobita de 1745. Muchos de los personajes son personas reales, incluido uno de los principales, Alan Breck Stewart. La situación política de la época se presenta desde múltiples puntos de vista, y los escoceses de las Tierras Altas son tratados con simpatía. El título completo del libro es Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Also known as Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 ...

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“Society already understands that the criminal is not he who washes our dirty linen in public, but he who dirties the linen.”
— Vladimir Bukovsky (b.1932), Russian author. Stated on 5 January, 1972. Quoted in Radio Times magazine, 19 September, 1977.
“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.”
— Emma Goldman, "Anarchism, What it Really Stands For", Anarchism and Other Essays (1917).
“The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.”
— Henry Miller, Sexus, chapter 14 (1949).
“A man who has no excuse for crime, is indeed defenceless!”
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons, Act IV, scene 1.
“Qui non vetat peccare, cum possit, jubet.”
— He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
“The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminal, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”
— W. E. B. Du Bois, reported in Robert D. Ramsey, Well Said, Well Spoken (Corwin Press, 2001), p. 30. .

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