Public-domain audiobook
Kidnapped (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: 8 h 16 min in 31 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
8 h 16 minrunning time
31sections
≈ 76,000words
About this recording
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge), is shocked to suddenly have his young relative descend on him and tries to rid himself of David with an arranged accident. Failing that, he pays the captain of a brig to kidnap David and sell him into slavery in Carolina. A collision in the fog brings onboard the brig a survivor, Alan Breck Stewart, who is carrying a dangerous amount of gold on his person.
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.