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'David Balfour' is the sequel to 'Kidnapped', and starts at the exact moment that Robert Louis Stevenson's more famous book ends - with Balfour in Edinburgh, standing cold and remorseful outside the offices of the British Linen Company. From there begins a rollicking series of adventures which sees our eponymous hero successively marooned on a remote island, traveling through Holland and France where he fights for his life with his old comrade Alan Breck, and finding time to fall in love with the spirited and beautiful Catriona, grand-daughter of the infamous 'Highland Rogue', Rob Roy.

This book is justly famous as a superb distillation of the main principles of Raja Yoga, presented in a manner best suited to western minds. First published in 1906, it was written by William Walker Atkinson, an intensely secretive occultist, who authored many works under various pseudonyms, including Yogi Ramacharaka. Alongside its philosophical content, the book includes numerous mental exercises. Some are designed to increase the control and enjoyment we have over our own lives, while others aid in the development of occult powers and move the developed soul towards that ultimate spiritual experience - Illumination.

Morose, cynical and given to drink, Sydney Carton is one of Charles Dickens' most famous characters; a dispassionate man, yet capable, in the final moments of 'A Tale Of Two Cities', of sacrificing himself beneath the guillotine for Lucy, the woman he both loved and lost.It now appears, however, that Dickens was being somewhat economical with the actualité. Newly recovered documents, written in Carton's own hand, tell a far different tale. Sydney Carton survived his execution, only to find himself at the mercy of the monstrous Robespierre, author of the Paris Terror. His love Lucy languishes in a French prison, her husband dead, and Carton can ensure her survival only by becoming Robespierre's personal spy. Reluctant, terrified and often drunk, Carton blunders his way through the major events of the Revolution, grudgingly partaking in some of the blackest deeds of the Terror and, by a mixture of cowardice, bravado and luck, lending a hand in the fall of most of its leading figures. Kidnapped by the British, he finds himself a double agent, trusted by neither side. Carton's outrageous memoirs record the slow decay of revolutionary ideals and, in passing, cast light on the true parentage of that sadistic villain of 'Tom Browne's Schooldays', the beastly Flashman.