The master of Ballantrae

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Subjects: Scotland, history, fiction, Brothers, Inheritance and succession, History, Revenge, Brothers, fiction, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, action & adventure, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Absence and presumption of death, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction in English

Description: 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.