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  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375759307
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

The Master of Ballantrae

A Winter's Tale




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.”

This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes illustrations reproduced from the original edition.

  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780375759307
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

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Persuasion
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

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