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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is an 1889 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 869 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 184767559X |
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Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson’s fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson’s contemporaries to the present day.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Birlinn Publishers |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"In 1887 Robert Louis Stevenson travelled to Saranac Lake in New York, in search of a healthier climate. There he began work on The Master of Ballantrae, a powerful tale of rivalry, obsession and bitter hatred between two brothers. Taking in piracy, political intrigue and buried treasure, the story begins in Scotland, then swiftly moves across three continents to a harrowing climax in the American wilderness." "Despite being cut short by Stevenson's sudden death in 1894, Weir of Hermiston is an enthralling novel, set in Scotland during the Napoleonic Wars. Perhaps drawing in part on his own experiences, Stevenson's fascination with the divided nature of the self comes to the fore in the fierce conflict between the romantic Archie Weir and his formidable father Lord Hermiston."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 172 |
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Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849676366 |
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In his romance "The Master of Ballantrae" Stevenson has touched high-water mark. One is tempted to go beyond this and say that no modern work of fiction in the English language rises higher in the scale of literary merit than this. It is a story of human passion, of human weakness, of human love and hate. The scene of the tale, for the most part, is laid in and around the House of Durrisdeer, on the Solway shore. Four persons make up the dramatis persona, at the beginning of the story, and although others come into the drama as it wears on to its tragical close, it may be said that no greater number than this is called into the plot of the piece. An old lord overfond of his rascally elder son; that son, devilish in his selfishness and satanic in his powers of fascination; a young woman blindly in love with him; and a younger son, who is early taunted with being the Supplanter, and who has the only virtue in the family; these are the materials from which Mr. Stevenson has evolved one of the most admirable pieces of literary work that has been given to the world of readers in many a day.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Cosimo Classics |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : History |
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"Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine." -Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : London (England) |
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Author | : Claire Harman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.
Author | : Richard Ambrosini |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2006-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0299212238 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and the present relevance of his kaleidoscopic achievements. While most young readers know Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) as the author of Treasure Island, few people outside of academia are aware of the breadth of his literary output. The contributors to Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries look, with varied critical approaches, at the whole range of his literary production and unite to confer scholarly legitimacy on this enormously influential writer who has been neglected by critics. As the editors point out in their Introduction, Stevenson reinvented the “personal essay” and the “walking tour essay,” in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance that broke completely with Victorian moralism. His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island, provocatively combined a popular genre (subverting its imperialist ideology) with a self-conscious literary approach. Stevenson, one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, was very effectively excluded from the canon by his twentieth-century successors and rejected by Anglo-American Modernist writers and critics for his play with popular genres and for his non-serious metaliterary brilliance. While Stevenson’s critical recognition has been slowly increasing, there have been far fewer published single-volume studies of his works than those of his contemporaries, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Romances |
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