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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Penguin Classics)

AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson, Adrian Poole (Editor)
ISBN: 0140434461
SHORT DESCRIPTION: In December 1887 Stevenson wrote that he had 'fallen head over heels into a new tale ... a most seizing tale; there are some fantastic elements; the most is a dead genuine human problem - human tragedy, I should say rather.'. The Master of...

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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Penguin Classics)
- Book Review, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Adrian Poole (Editor)

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?If a strong story, strongly told, full of human interest, and absolutely original in its situations, makes a masterpiece, then this may lay claim to the title.??Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (Penguin Classics)
- Book Reviews, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Adrian Poole (Editor)

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale

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Stevenson's brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme - the elemental struggle between good and evil - as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds itself tragically divided. Stevenson's remarkably vivid characterizations create an acutely moving, psychologically complex work; as Andrea Barrett points out in her Introduction, "The brothers' characters, not the historical facts, shape the drama."

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