I remember liking it, but I read it when I was 13 or so. Jekyll and Hyde and Treasure Island are certainly more famous, and Weir of Hermiston, though unfinished, is quite often presented as his stylistic masterpiece.
I take it you won't be picking up Catriona, then? (The sequel to Kidnapped)
And yes, Stevenson died young. But strangely not from tuberculosis or another disease of the lungs, which is what everyone expected to kill him (and which made him move to Samoa, where he died, in the first place).
Also, while Jekyll and Hyde might be more famous, and Treasure Island more pirate-y, Kidnapped is my favourite. it is the best written of its type, methinks, and the most passionate.
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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 07/01/2011 12:14:45 AM
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I am not sure I'd agree that it is Stevenson's best work
- 07/01/2011 08:21:18 AM
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Re: I am not sure I'd agree that it is Stevenson's best work
- 07/01/2011 11:56:26 AM
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Re: Catriona is SO BORING.
- 07/01/2011 06:04:19 PM
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I've not read a great deal of Stevenson, and managed to avoid this one.
- 08/01/2011 01:14:41 AM
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