Fiction · 1889
The Master of Ballantrae
A Winter’s Tale
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Contents
- Dedication
- Note
- Preface
- Chapter I — Summary of Events During This Master’s Wanderings
- Chapter II — Summary of Events (Continued)
- Chapter III — The Master’s Wanderings
- Chapter IV — Persecutions Endured by Mr. Henry
- Chapter V — Account of All That Passed on the Night on February 27th, 1757
- Chapter VI — Summary of Events During the Master’s Second Absence
- Chapter VII — Adventure of Chevalier Burke in India
- Chapter VIII — The Enemy in the House
- Chapter IX — Mr. Mackellar’s Journey with the Master
- Chapter X — Passages at New York
- Chapter XI — The Journey in the Wilderness
- Chapter XII — The Journey in the Wilderness (Continued)
- Footnotes
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About the author
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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