Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.

Is kidnapped a good book?

Robert Louis Stevenson's “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, it is “one of the most brilliant adventure stories of all times”— and that's no exaggeration.

When did the book Kidnapped take place?

Kidnapped, novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks in 1886. Kidnapped and its sequel, Catriona (1893; U.S. title, David Balfour), are both set in Scotland in the mid-1700s.