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The master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Luis Stevenson, robert l stevenson
- absence and presumption of death
- history
- brothers
- inheritance and succession
- revenge
- fiction in english
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The author of Treasure Island delivers a "colorful plot and tense family drama . . . You couldn't ask for more fun in a novel—it even has pirates" (The Guardian).
During the Jacobite Risings of 1745, two Scottish brothers battle for the family inheritance in what "is commonly regarded as [Robert Louis Stevenson's] greatest full-length work" (The Atlantic).
"[The Master of Ballantrae] has the adventurous spirit of Treasure Island, the romantic 18th-century Scottish setting of Kidnapped, the obsession with doubles and divided selves that makes Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde such a resonant parable, and a climactic image as horrific as that in The Body Snatcher. Its blend of historical romance, travel fantasy and gothic nightmare makes it deeply pleasurable." —The Guardian
"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
Quotes
From WikiquoteThose that have the underhand in any fighting, I have observed, are ever anxious to persuade themselves they were betrayed.
Let anyone speak long enough, he will get believers.
I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of ear-shot or to have no common tongue.
Thus in the best fabric of duplicity, there is some weak point, if you can strike it, which will loosen all.
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