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The master of Ballantrae : a winter's tale / Robert Louis Stevenson ; illustrations by Walter Paget ; afterword by Nicholas Rankin.

by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.

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Reader's Digest Association, 1995.

Charles Edward, Prince, grandson of James II, King of England, 1720-1788 -- Fiction.

Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 -- Fiction.

Nobility -- Scotland -- Fiction.

Scotland -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.

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9780679417446 (1992 Everyman's Library hc.)

1 v. (various pagings)

1992 Everyman's Library hardcover edition contains an introduction by John Sutherland.

Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer. But he is to return years later, embittered by battles and a savage life of piracy on the high seas, to demand his inheritance. Turning the people against the Lord, he begins a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness. Satanic and seductive, the Master was regarded by Stevenson as all I know of the devil'; his darkly manipulative schemes dominate this subtle and compelling tragedy.

Historical fiction.

Classic fiction.

Paget, Walter, 1863-1935.

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