Here is the beloved, high-adventure story of David Balfour, whose uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and has him kidnapped and sold into slavery. An odyssey ensues, including a shipwreck, narrow escapes, and desperate fighting.
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John Seelye is a graduate research professor of American literature at the University of Florida. He is the author of The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain at the Movies, Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Literature, Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Early Republic, Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, and War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism. He is also the consulting editor for Penguin Classics in American literature.
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...with many relevant themes: treachery, perseverance and above all, loyalty. A difficult read for a high-school freshman, owing to setting, period and Victorian verbosity. But the didactic in this classic makes it well worth slogging through. I would have given it 5 stars, but unfortunately the binding fell apart like every other Signet book I've read since 1986!
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