R L Stevenson – The Scottish Novels ([David Balfour 01-02] – Kidnapped; Catriona; The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston) (retail) (epub)
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Name: R L Stevenson – The Scottish Novels ([David Balfour 01-02] – Kidnapped; Catriona; The Master of Ballantrae; Weir of Hermiston) (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
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Title: The Scottish Novels
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Year: 2017
Subjects: IGP-002CBL
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9788379247714
Total pages: N/A
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Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped Catriona The Master of Ballantrae Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevensons imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevensons fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of…
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