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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics.‘I have seen wicked men and fools a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’Orphaned as a young teenager Lowlander David Balfour’s only relative is his guardian and uncle Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many it’s not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.He soon strikes up a friendship with fugitive stranger and Scottish Highlander Alan Breck and becomes embroiled in the fierce Jacobite struggle against English rule. A tale of high-seas adventure loyalty and fighting the complex relationship between Alan and David stops Stevenson’s novel from becoming ‘just’ a boys adventure novel.