The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson

⏱ 8 minAdventure classic

When the 1745 rising divides a noble Scottish house, the brilliant, evil elder brother returns again and again out of the world to torment and destroy the dutiful younger who supplanted him, to a ghastly reckoning in the frozen wilderness. Stevenson's dark masterpiece.

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