The Master of Ballantrae

Hardcover Cloth 303 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket Slipcase Very Good. Heritage Press Reprint edition 1965. Lovely dark blue boards and silver embossing shows off this | on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Slipcase smooth and clean with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes and scratches. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. 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 infective influence—on his younger, less attractive brother Henry; on Henry's wife Alison; and on those narrators whom Stevenson so skillfully employs to present their experiences of this charming, ruthless, and evil man. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.