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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale

Book Description
In December 1887 Stevenson wrote that he had 'fallen head over heels into a new tale ... a most seizing tale; there are some fantastic elements; the most is a dead genuine human problem - human tragedy, I should say rather.' The Master of Ballantrae opens in the old Scottish house of Durisdeer, ancestral home of the Duries, a family divided by the Jacobite rising of 1745. Its adventure draws in se... More
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PublisherPenguin Young Readers Group
BindingKindle Edition (72 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-10B0049U4L02
Publication Date01/01/1997
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About Adrian Poole (Author) : Adrian Poole is a published author and an editor. Some of the published credits of Adrian Poole include The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics), The American (Oxford World's Classics), What Maisie Knew (Ox... more
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About Robert Louis Stevenson (Author) : Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He w... more
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