Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Kidnapped

Autor Robert Louis Stevenson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 1994

Lectura romanului Kidnapped impune un ritm stratificat, unde goana palpitantă a aventurii se împletește cu o contemplare melancolică a peisajului scoțian și a onoarei pierdute. Observăm cum Robert Louis Stevenson reușește să transforme ceea ce părea o simplă „carte pentru băieți” într-o explorare profundă a identității, navigând între loialitățile politice fracturate ale Scoției de după răscoala iacobită. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul construiește tensiunea: de la scările neterminate ale casei Shaws, care se termină brusc într-un abis întunecat, până la atmosfera sufocantă de la bordul corabiei Covenant. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Treasure Island, deși aici realismul istoric și nuanțele politice marchează o voce proprie, mult mai matură și mai ancorată în geografia natală a autorului. Dacă în Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Stevenson explora dualitatea psihologică a individului, în Kidnapped el proiectează această dualitate asupra întregii națiuni scoțiene, reprezentată prin contrastul dintre David Balfour, un Lowlander prudent și rațional, și Alan Breck Stewart, Highland-erul impulsiv și flamboaiant. Găsim în această lucrare nu doar un itinerar geografic prin munții sălbatici, ci și unul moral, în care maturizarea lui David se produce prin suferință și expunere la nedreptate. Este o operă care, sub masca memoriilor de aventură, ascunde o finețe stilistică ce i-a atras admirația unor maeștri precum Jorge Luis Borges, confirmând statutul lui Stevenson de povestitor universal.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 9164 lei

Preț vechi: 11006 lei
-17%

Puncte Express: 137

Paperback (63) de la 3801 lei

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 20-26 august
Livrare express 31 iulie-06 august pentru 5596 lei

Livrare prin curier în România Termenul estimat este afișat lângă disponibilitate.
Transport gratuit de la 40000 lei Plată online sau ramburs, în funcție de opțiunile comenzii.
Retur gratuit în 14 zile Comandă securizată și suport în română.

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781857159295
ISBN-10: 1857159292
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 42ill.(12col.).
Dimensiuni: 164 x 219 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: YEARLING
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o aventură clasică, dar rafinată literar. Veți câștiga o perspectivă imersivă asupra istoriei Scoției și o poveste despre prietenie și supraviețuire. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care apreciază proza de atmosferă, unde mediul natural devine un personaj în sine, oferind mai mult decât un simplu roman de gen: o meditație asupra onoarei și a maturizării forțate.


Despre autor

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) a fost un romancier, eseist și poet scoțian, recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai mari povestitori ai literaturii universale. Născut în Edinburgh, a luptat întreaga viață cu probleme de sănătate, fapt care l-a împins să călătorească în căutarea unor climate mai blânde, stabilindu-se în final în Samoa. Deși faima sa inițială s-a datorat unor lucrări precum Treasure Island, Stevenson a evoluat spre un realism mai întunecat. În prezent, este unul dintre cei mai traduși autori din lume, opera sa fiind celebrată pentru profunzimea psihologică și măiestria narativă.


Descriere

First published as a serial in YOUNG FOLKS between May and July 1886 and now reprinted in an Everyman edition on the centenary of Stevenson's death. Rowland Hilder is famous for his paintings of the English countryside but his work in book illustration covered a much wider canvas.

Recenzii

“It’s a pacy, twisting story that appeals to all ages and across classes and cultures.”
– Ian Rankin
"It stands as one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most compelling works - it was one of the author's favourites, and his affection for his central characters is unmistakable - and is a novel you want to press on people, knowing they'll love it" -- Ian Rankin Guardian "Generations of readers have been enthralled by his tale of the gauche young David, orphaned at 17, who is plunged into a life of danger and excitement... His rescue by the daredevil Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart, their bloody battle with the crew of the Covenant and shipwreck on rocks off the west coast isle of Earraid are among the most exciting scenes penned by a Scots author" Daily Mail "Anyone who has read Kidnapped knows that Robert Louis Stevenson was a marvellously powerful storyteller as well as a great stylist" Daily Telegraph "It's a pacy, twisting story that appeals to all ages and across classes and cultures. It's a tale of friendship in adversity, and a coming-of-age story" -- Ian Rankin Guardian

Extras

Introduction by Margot Livesey

I.

When I was growing up in Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson was the first author whom I knew by name, and he remains the only one whom I can truthfully claim to have been reading all my life. From an early age, my parents read to me from A Child's Garden of Verses, and I soon learned some of the poems by heart.

I have a little shadow
that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him
is more than I can see.

Perhaps I recognized, even then, Stevenson's unique gift for keeping a foot in two camps. While the poems vividly captured my childish concerns, somewhere in the margins shimmered the mystery of adult life. A few years later Kidnapped was the first chapter book I read, and I can still picture the maroon binding and the black-and-white drawings that illustrated David Balfour's adventures. At the age of seven, a book without pictures would have been out of the question, but, in fact, they turned out to be superfluous. I could imagine everything that happened just from the words on the page, although I must admit to the small advantage that the view from my bedroom window--bare hills, rocks, heather--was very much like the landscape of Kidnapped.

At first glance such early acquaintance might seem like a good omen for an author's reputation. In actuality, that Stevenson is so widely read by children has tended to make him seem like an author from who, as adults, we have little to learn. It is worth noting that his contemporaries would not have shared this prejudice. Nineteenth-century readers did not regard children's books as separate species. Stevenson's own father often reread The Parent's Assistant, a volume of children's stories, and Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf's father, writes of staying up late to finish Treasure Island.

Like the shadow of his poem, Stevenson's reputation has waxed and waned at an alarming rate. He died in a blaze of hagiography, which perhaps in part explains the fury of later critics. F.R. Leavis in The Great Tradition dismisses Stevenson (in a footnote, no less) as a romantic writer, guilty of fine writing, and in general Stevenson has not fared as well as his friend Henry James. People comment with amazement that Borges and Nabokov praised his novels. Still, his best work has remained in print for over a hundred years, and his is among that small group of authors to have given a phrase to the language: Jekyll and Hyde.

Besides our perception of Stevenson as a children's author, two other factors may have contributed to his ambiguous reputation. Although his list of publications is much longer than most people realize--he wrote journalism and travel pieces for money--he failed to produce a recognizable oeuvre, a group of works that stand together, each resonating with the others. In addition, the pendulum of literary taste has swung in a direction that Stevenson disliked and was determined to avoid: namely, pessimism. After reading The Portrait of a Lady he wrote to James begging him to write no more such books, and while he admired the early work of Thomas Hardy, he hated the darker Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The English writer John Galsworthy commented memorably on this aspect of Stevenson when he said that the superiority of Stevenson over Hardy was that Stevenson was all life, while Hardy was all death.


From the Trade Paperback edition.