STEVENSON, Robert Louis.

The Master of Ballantrae.

"It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words": The Heritage Press Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae

New York: The Heritage Press, 1965.

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The Heritage Press edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's dark historical romance. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, illustarted with color lithographs. In fine condition. Introduction by G.B. Stern. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Ward was a pioneering American illustrator and graphic novelist whose wordless woodcut novels, influenced by Expressionism and the German Bildroman, elevated the visual narrative form and positioned him as a central figure in the development of the American graphic novel.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. The Master of Ballantrae (1889) is a dark historical romance set against the backdrop of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, the novel follows the antagonistic relationship between two brothers—James Durie, the titular "Master," and his younger sibling Henry—whose conflicting loyalties and personalities drive the narrative. Stevenson’s use of multiple narrators and shifting perspectives lends the story a psychological depth uncommon in adventure fiction of the period.