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Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Master of Ballantrae" (in full "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale"), written in 1888 and published in 1889, examines the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
This masterpiece provides another example of the moral ambiguity Stevenson had explored earlier in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Ballantrae is bold and unscrupulous; his younger brother Henry is plodding, good-natured, and honest. While Ballantrae joins the fight to restore the Stuarts to the English throne during the 1745 rebellion, his brother stays behind as a supporter of King George. Ballantrae is believed dead but returns to find Henry in charge of the estate, married to Ballantrae’s love. The elder brother begins to persecute the younger, in Scotland and then America.
Like "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped", "The Master of Ballantrae" is a gripping, fast-paced adventure story told in the first person, serious and foreboding and Gothic. It starts off in a gloomy old Scottish mansion and takes its protagonists, powerfully and vividly, to the immense forests of New World.
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Rating★★★★ 3.8 (15.6K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Horror, Historical Fiction
Length9 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 14, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1To Sir Percy Florence And Lady Shelley
2Preface
3Chapter 1. Summary Of Events During This Master’s Wanderings
4Chapter 2. Summary Of Events (Continued)
5Chapter 3. The Master’s Wanderings
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6Chapter 4. Persecutions Endured By Mr. Henry
7Chapter 5. Account Of All That Passed On The Night On February 27th, 1757
8Chapter 6. Summary Of Events During The Master’s Second Absence
9Chapter 7. Adventure Of Chevalier Burke In India
10Chapter 8. The Enemy In The House
11Chapter 9. Mr. Mackellar’s Journey With The Master
12Chapter 10. Passages At New York
13Chapter 11. The Journey In The Wilderness
14Chapter 12. The Journey In The Wilderness (Continued)
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