Kidnapped (Dramatic Reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Kidnapped (Dramatic Reading), credited to Robert Louis Stevenson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Kidnapped (Dramatic Reading) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. David Balfour's uncle has him kidnapped in order to cheat him out of his inheritance! After being shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, David reunites with a friend from the voyage (wanted Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart) only to find they are now suspects in a murder! David and Alan must flee across Scotland to get David back his inheritance and Alan to safety in France! - Summary by Alexandria Adair

Recording facts

• Recording title: Kidnapped (Dramatic Reading)
• Author credits: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:19:27

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• scotland
• children's literature
• historical

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - DRAMATIS PERSONAE and PREFACE — 15:03
2. 01 - CHAPTER 1: I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws — 10:26
3. 02 - CHAPTER 2: I Come to My Journey's End — 10:35
4. 03 - CHAPTER 3: I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle — 14:41
5. 04 - CHAPTER 4: I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws — 16:06
6. 05 - CHAPTER 5: I Go to the Queen's Ferry — 12:20
7. 06 - CHAPTER 6: What Befell at the Queen's Ferry — 9:17
8. 07 - CHAPTER 7: I Go to Sea in the Brig Covenant of Dysart — 14:00
9. 08 - CHAPTER 8: The Round-house — 9:11
10. 09 - CHAPTER 9: The Man with the Belt of Gold — 19:10
11. 10 - CHAPTER 10: The Siege of the Round-House — 12:44
12. 11 - CHAPTER 11: The Captain Knuckles Under — 9:26
13. 12 - CHAPTER 12: I Hear of the "Red Fox" — 20:04
14. 13 - CHAPTER 13: The Loss of the Brig — 10:26
15. 14 - CHAPTER 14: The Islet — 17:26
16. 15 - CHAPTER 15: The Lad with the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull — 14:34
17. 16 - CHAPTER 16: The Lad with the Silver Button: Across Morven — 14:21
18. 17 - CHAPTER 17: The Death of the Red Fox — 10:33
19. 18 - CHAPTER 18: I Talk with Alan in the Wood of Lettermore — 16:24
20. 19 - CHAPTER 19: The House of Fear — 12:51
21. 20 - CHAPTER 20: The Flight in the Heather-the Rocks — 16:10
22. 21 - CHAPTER 21: The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh — 15:12
23. 22 - CHAPTER 22: The Flight in the Heather-the Moor — 14:31
24. 23 - CHAPTER 23: Cluny's Cage — 15:35

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