The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson · 1889

A dark tale of two brothers locked in lifelong hatred across Scotland, America, and India. Stevenson's brooding novel of a family's ruin.

Books mentioned in The Master of Ballantrae (2)

• Paradise Lost by John Milton: “He had all the gravity and something of the splendour of Satan in the “Paradise Lost.””
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson: “The book he had on board with him was Mr. Richardson’s famous _Clarissa_!”

Books that mention The Master of Ballantrae (2)

• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Stevenson essay: named”
• Light, Wind and Dreams by Atsushi Nakajima: “David Balfour is to be the first work since The Master of Ballantrae that can really count. Nobody else can quite understand how fond the author is of young Davie. [auto-translated]”