The Master of Ballantrae
A Winter's Tale
$23.18
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2002
Summary
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, p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759307 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375759301 |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrea Barrett |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 211g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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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
“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
About The Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The Voyage of the Narwhal, and two collections of stories—Ship Fever, which received the National Book Award, and Servants of the Map. She lives in Rochester, New York.
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