Master of Ballantrae, The: A Winter's Tale
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Master of Ballantrae, The: A Winter's Tale, a novel by R. L.
Stevenson, published 1889.
It is the story of the lifelong feud between the Master of Ballantrae, violent, unscrupulous, elegant, and courageous, and his younger brother Henry, at the outset a quiet, dull, honest fellow. The Master joins Prince Charles Edward in the '45 rebellion, disappears after Culloden, and is believed dead. After many adventures the Master returns, with a price on his head, to find that Henry has succeeded to his place and the woman whom he was to have married. Embittered by misfortune, he embarks on a course of persecution, first in Scotland, then in America, which brings both brothers to an untimely grave in the Adirondacks. The story is narrated by the dour but loyal Ephraim Mackellar.
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