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The Master of Ballantrae
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Stevenson’s dark Scottish romance follows rival brothers, Jacobite intrigue, exile, piracy, and corrosive family obsession.
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The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is one of Stevenson’s most psychologically charged romances, tracing the hatred between two brothers whose choices after the Jacobite rising poison family, inheritance, marriage, and identity. Its movement from Scotland to sea voyages and colonial frontiers gives the story a haunted international reach.
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Author died in 1894; original text first published in 1889. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.
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- 01Full text
- 02CHAPTER VI. SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTER’S SECOND ABSENCE
- 03CHAPTER VII. ADVENTURE OF CHEVALIER BURKE IN INDIA
- 04CHAPTER VIII. THE ENEMY IN THE HOUSE
- 05CHAPTER IX. MR. MACKELLAR’S JOURNEY WITH THE MASTER
- 06CHAPTER XI. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS
- 07CHAPTER XII. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS (_continued_)
- 08SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THIS MASTER’S WANDERINGS.
- 09book, and his eyes set upon her face with a kind of pleasant intentness
- 10part of what they had previously done well. But the letter, sure
- 11THE MASTER’S WANDERINGS.
- 12part to conceal your kindness. Hence I was the more careful to obey
- 13ACCOUNT OF ALL THAT PASSED ON THE NIGHT ON FEBRUARY 27TH, 1757.
- 14SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTER’S SECOND ABSENCE.
- 15ADVENTURE OF CHEVALIER BURKE IN INDIA.
- 16part of mankind, the vanity. He dropped, besides (I must suppose
- 17MR. MACKELLAR’S JOURNEY WITH THE MASTER.
- 18book of Job, the touching poetry of Isaiah—they were to him a source of
- 19part of his circuit, my Lord Durrisdeer began to pace more leisurely,
- 20IN THE TENTS OF SAVAGE HUNTERS AND THE
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