Pen­gu­in Clas­sics, 1994

232 d.

[Klap­pen­text]

Orpha­ned and left pen­ni­less, David Bal­four sets out to find his last living rela­ti­ve, mise­r­ly and reclu­si­ve Uncle Ebe­ne­zer. But Ebe­ne­zer is far from wel­co­ming, and David nar­row­ly escapes being mur­de­red befo­re he is kid­nap­ped and impri­so­ned on a ship bound for the Caro­li­nas. When the ship is wre­cked, David, along with fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the tre­ache­rous High­land ter­rain on a quest to see that jus­ti­ce is done. Through his powerful depic­tion of the con­tras­ting per­so­na­li­ties of his two cen­tral cha­rac­ters — the roman­tic Breck and the ratio­na­list Whig David — Ste­ven­son dra­ma­ti­zed a con­flict that was at the heart of Scot­tish cul­tu­re in the after­math of the Jaco­bi­te rebel­li­on, as well as crea­ting an unfor­gettable adven­ture story.

Stand­ort: AA