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Fiction · 1889

The Master of Ballantrae

A Winter’s Tale

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading time
about 6.5 h
Length
87,131 words · 142 pages
Structure
12 chapters · 4 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Note
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter I — Summary of Events During This Master’s Wanderings
  5. Chapter II — Summary of Events (Continued)
  6. Chapter III — The Master’s Wanderings
  7. Chapter IV — Persecutions Endured by Mr. Henry
  8. Chapter V — Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757
  9. Chapter VI — Summary of Events During the Master’s Second Absence
  10. Chapter VII — Adventure of Chevalier Burke in India
  11. Chapter VIII — The Enemy in the House
  12. Chapter IX — Mr. Mackellar’s Journey with the Master
  13. Chapter X — Passages at New York
  14. Chapter XI — The Journey in the Wilderness
  15. Chapter XII — The Journey in the Wilderness (Continued)
  16. Footnotes

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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 · Victorian

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.

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