I've been following this thread a while. I think I preferred when we had categories like, crime, historical fiction, non fiction, etc. The change in categories pretty much allows anything. Oh well, I was tempted to nominate a classic like Watership Down, The Hobbit (like Catlady) or similar. Quest to me means something like that, although in most good novels the protagonist has some sort of 'quest' or adventure. I toyed around with Edgar Sawtell, but it's rather lengthy.
For now I'll second The Alchemist. And I'll nominate Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. (I share a birthday with Mr Stevenson) Kidnapped appears in our Patricia Clarke Memorial Library in a combined volume with it's sequel, David Balfour. I don't believe a book description is required. I'd recommend reading the sequel as well.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...ouis+Stevenson
Got a description (Wikipedia)
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Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel.[1] A sequel, Catriona, was published in 1893.
The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots.
Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints, and the Scottish Highlanders are treated sympathetically.
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The Sequel, sometimes called Catriona (The girl David meets) Although I'm not nominating the sequel as well. When first exposed to this story it was a British miniseries starring David Mccallum (aka 'Ducky'or Illya Kuryakin) as Alan Breck Stewart. The mini series was a series of both novels so when I first read Kidnapped I was disappointed in how incomplete the story was.
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Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886). It was first published in the magazine Atalanta from December 1892 to September 1893[1]. The novel continues the story of the central character in Kidnapped, David Balfour.
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