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Dans ce récit de son séjours aux Hébrides au Nord de l'Ecosse, Stevenson retrouve le bonheur de la solitude dans une Nature toujours belle et brute à la fois!

N'achetez pas cette édition!!!

Kathy Fairlamb

Commenté en France le 3 août 2020

Il ne s'agit pas de la version originale du texte, mais d'une traduction automatique à partir d'une langue étrangère, du coup totalement incompréhensible en anglais! Achetez une autre édition, le Penguin Classics par exemple.

Great typical writing and telling of a story by Stevenson, one of his great works. Would love to discover the land myself and walk and sail around.

edmond millet

Commenté en France le 28 janvier 2021

Great typical writing and telling of a story by Stevenson, one of his great works. Would love to discover the land myself and walk and sail around.

j de saint laurent

Défaut technique

Commenté en France le 29 octobre 2020

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Commenté en France le 18 février 2017

Read this book as a teenager and enjoyed it. Forty years later with a passion for history ... just loved it.

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"catherinebug_girl"

A brilliant story, let down by very poor quality print production

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 17 août 2018

Kidnapped, as written by Stevenson, deserves to be given 5 stars in this review - it is a wonderful story in it's own right, and offers the reader a vivid picture of the Highland landscape and a fascinating glimpse into Scotland's social history. The use of Scottish colloquialisms gives the book an unequivocal Scottish accent. It is a story of friendship, honour and adventure and I would highly recommend it.

So it is with regret that I am leaving a one star review. In this instance, the story has been grossly let down by the poor production quality of this particular edition. The book I received was printed in UK for Amazon, and I can only describe it as cheep and unprofessional. Some of the issues I found were:

- a poorly formatted table of contents;
- chapters that started at different points on the page. Some ran concurrently with the previous chapter, while others started at the top of a new page (as they should);
- the first letter of the first word of each chapter was missing;
- the text was poorly laid out on many of the pages;
- the footnotes giving the meaning of some of the Scottish colloquialisms used, were placed randomly within the text itself rather than at the bottom of the page, and some were missing altogether;

All-in-all, this was a very poor quality edition and while I do not think any of the story was missing, I had lost confidence in the rendering of it within three chapters. Thankfully, I had bought it for myself, rather than as a gift, because I would have been ashamed to give a book of such poor quality to anyone as a present.

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Chris Wright

An Unreadable travesty

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 4 août 2020

This is a nonsense - literally. The text is utterly garbled - it looks like it has been machine-translated into Chinese and back again.

AVOID THIS. Refund requested.

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Dr. M. A. Jeffree

A very poor version. Not recommended

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 16 janvier 2021

This is a very poor version of Kidnapped. There are many whole sentences and even paragraphs that make no sense at all. It reads as if it has been translated from a foreign language by a computer. Consider this paragraph (chapter VIII), by no means the worst example:
This version -
At that word, the captain and I and Mr. Riach all looked at each other for a 2d (sic) with a sort of worried look; and then Hoseason walked as much as his leader officer, took him by way of the shoulder, led him across to his bunk and bade him lie down and dose off, as you might communicate with a horrific baby.
Oxford World's Classics version-
At that word, the captain and I and Mr. Riach all looked at each other for a second with a kind of frightened look; and then Hoseason walked up to his chief officer, took him by the shoulder, led him across to his bunk, and bade him lie down and go to sleep, as you might speak to a bad child.

I will abandon the sport of looking for worse examples and stick to the Oxford World's Classics version!

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Ken of Shavington

A 2nd reading some 60 years after the 1st

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 14 avril 2020

I 1at read this book whilst at primary school and, on a whim, decided to re-read it during the current lockdown. To my surprise I found that I really enjoyed the book. It is a cracking story though obviously the prose is a little dated. I can't recall how I managed with the innumerable old_Scots words as a child but they presented little trouble this time round.

Not sure if I will read other books from my childhood: can you still find Biggles?

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Mrs. L. Nichol

A classic quest for justice.

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 25 octobre 2015

I heard a lecture on Kidnapped recently and the speaker made the story of young orphan David Balfour, kidnapped and sent to sea after trying to claim his rightful inheritance from his wicked uncle, sound so thrilling and relevant to today's world that I reread it after a gap of 40 years and was not disappointed. I grew up believing it to be a "boys' book" but it's essentially a Scottish book dealing with the realities of growing up as the main character David Balfour takes us on a tour of Scotland in his quest for justice. The folk/fairytale aspect enhances the story and it becomes reminiscent of "Pilgrim's Progress" with all the characters David meets. The story also inspires the reader's interest in Scottish history and politics forcing us to think about the Jacobites and the significance of the Campbell's. The themes are relevant to teenage (male and female) readers - rites of passage; family and friends; loyalty with violent action - but equally relatable by adults. If, like me, you read it ages ago, I urge you to reread it as it will feel like meeting an old friend.If you are new to the novel, you'll enjoy the journey and you'll get to know Scotland a wee bit more too!

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