KIDNAPPED


Meaning of KIDNAPPED in English

a novel (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson . It is about the adventures of David Balfour, a young man who is kidnapped (= taken away by force) from his home in Scotland and made to work as a slave. He escapes with the help of Alan Breck, a Jacobite .

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