First Reader's Digest Edition (First Thus). Publisher's Pamphlet Laid In. Faint Brown Stain At The Upper Edge Of The Front Pastedown And Ffep. As Well As The Bottom Of The Pamphlet. Small Faint Stain On The Foredges. Seller Inventory # 028310

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Title: The Master Of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale

Publisher: The Readers Digest Association Ltd, Pleasantville, New York, U. S. A.

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Walt Paget

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued

Edition: First Thus

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Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. No dust jacket. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.

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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. The family servant Mackellar narrates The Master of Ballantrae, and his divided loyalties dramatize the question of 'mastery' which, in his introduction to this Penguin Classics edition, Adrian Poole identifies as a vital theme in Stevenson's tragic masterpiece.

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