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The master of Ballantrae : a winter tale

""The Master of Ballantrae"" takes a deep, disturbing turn after ""Kidnapped and Catriona"", with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to adventures in frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson's fascination with the divided nature of the human self, so famously demonstrated in ""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", recurs in ""Weir of Hermiston"" with its awful father-son confrontation.

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  • "James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, thought killed during the Jacobite rebellion returns to Durrisdeer to find his brother in his place. But James is no wronged innocent ; he is, instead, a greedy, traitor, and he cunningly turns everyone against his staid, stoic brother, Henry."
  • """The Master of Ballantrae"" takes a deep, disturbing turn after ""Kidnapped and Catriona"", with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to adventures in frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson's fascination with the divided nature of the human self, so famously demonstrated in ""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", recurs in ""Weir of Hermiston"" with its awful father-son confrontation."@en
  • "A gripping tale of sibling rivalry and greed takes readers on a fast-paced adventure that encompasses sea voyages, encounters with pirates, intrigue at the French court, exotic life in India, buried treasure, and a shocking discovery in the American wilderness."@en
  • "The Master of Ballantrae is a tale of bitter hatred between two Scotish brothers who fight on opposite sides of the Stuart uprising of 1745 and maintain an undying enmity until their deaths in a lonely American wilderness. The Weir of Hermiston, an unfinished novel, focuses on the deep antipathy between a father and his son."@en
  • "In every respect, this magnificent novel plunges deeply into the roots of human nature, probes the psychology of motives, conceives a kaleidoscope of ambiguous and curiously ambivalent situations which turn into and upon every phase of man's moral experience. We have the political situation to make a judgment upon: who is right, the Master in joining the rebellious cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the English crown, or Henry and the old lord, who remain faithful to the King and the peers of the realm? We have the domestic situation. Is Alison right or wrong in keeping alive some feeling for James, who has, in the eyes of the world, lost everything: cause, estate, wife, and livelihood? We have the inner moral and mental vacillations of two men's souls in the agonies of relentless conflict, altering the structure of human nature, and finally beating each other in exhaustion to literal death. In the end, it is impossible to judge one man good and redeemed and another man evil and damned. We are aware only that we have been on a journey into the depths of human nature."@en
  • "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book 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."@en
  • "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 Durrisdeer, ancestral home of the Duries, a family divided by the Jacobite rising of 1745. Its adventure draws in sea voyages, piracy, buried treasure, magic and nightmare, and centres on the fatal rivalry between two brothers, James and Henry, and the wealthy and beautiful kinswoman who loves one brother but marries the other. 'The Master is all I know of the devil, ' Stevenson confessed, and the satanic, virile, seductive figure of James Durie dominates the novel."
  • "De tragische ondergang van een adellijke Schotse familie."
  • "Set in 18th century Scotland, it is an exploration of the nature and relationship between good and evil. In many ways, this is a parallel book to Jekyll and Hyde. In Master, the different aspects of human moral behavior are explored in conflict and relationship of 2 brothers, one charismatic and amoral, the other, stolid and virtuous. This is primarily a psychological novel of family tragedy brought about by the characters of the 2 bothers in a conflict ignited by the Jacobite uprising of 1745. Stevenson does an excellent job of handling the characters and plot. As with his other work, there is a nice depiction of 18th century Scotland. --R. Albin at Amazon.com."@en
  • "A romance set in Stevenson's native Scotland."@en
  • "Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French indies, and in the North American wilderness, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth century fiction - James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. The Master is about his ineffective influence - on his younger, less attractive brother Henry; on Henry's wife Alison; and on those narrators whom Stevenson so skilfully employs to present their experiences of this charming, ruthless and evil man."@en
  • "Two brothers toss to decide which shall join Bonnie Prince Charle's 1745 rebellion and later compete for the right to be the master of Balantrae."@en
  • "A novel of mystery and romance written in the 1880s by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which he explores the limits of good and evil through the story of Lord Durrisdeer, and his elder brother James, commonly called the Master of Ballantrae."@en
  • "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart."
  • "The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels. Two brothers are brought into conflict by the Jacobite rising of 1745, which tears their family apart."@en
  • "The downfall of a noble Scottish family involved in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, recounted by a faithful steward. For other editions, see Author Catalog."@en

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