Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin. Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson’s vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden.

David Balfour's story continues as he travels to the Netherlands alongside Catriona, who expects to meet her father there. For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman.

"Nolaupītais" jeb Deivida Belfūra atmiņas par viņa piedzīvojumiem 1751. gadā, par to, kā viņš tika nolaupīts un aizvests, ko viņš izcieta vientuļā saliņā, kā iepazinās ar Alanu Breku Stjuartu un citiem pazīstamiem Hailendsas jakobītiem, par to, ko viņam nācās ciest no sava tēvoča Ebenezera Belfūra no Šovas, kas ar viltu bija piesavinājies gan muižu, gan titulu, viņa paša atstāstītas un tagad Roberta Lūisa Stīvensona izdotas. Romāna "Nolaupītais" turpinājums. Deivida Belfūra atmiņas par viņa turpmākajiem piedzīvojumiem mājās un ārzemēs, par viņa tālāko līdzdalību Epinas slepkavības lietā, viņa sadursmi ar lordu advokātu Grantu, gūstniecību uz Basas klints, ceļojumu pa Holandi un Franciju un dīvainajām attiecībām ar Džeimsu Moru Dramondu jeb Makgregoru, slavenā Roba Roja dēlu, un viņa meitu Katrionu, viņa paša uzrakstītas un Roberta Lūisa Stīvensona izdotas.