The Master of Ballantrae pdf

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland on November 13, is a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and writer specializing in travel literature. Stevenson was admired by many writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges. Robert Lewis studied engineering, his father's profession, at the University of Edinburgh, but was not interested in the subject. In 1871, he changed his studies to law. But he knew he also wanted to be a writer. After university, Robert Louis visited France, Belgium and the United States and wrote about these trips. Stevenson became a full-time writer. Most of his early writings were short stories and travel books. He became famous when he wrote Treasure Island, his first long work of fiction. Other famous books were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886).

The Master of Ballantrae pdf by Robert Louis Stevenson

Unlike the "Rob Roy", the new historical novel written by Walter Scott "The Monastery" was taken by critics and readers rather cool. Nevertheless, the writer managed to brightly describe the dark and deaf Scotland during the tragic times of military defeat and at the same time - spiritual renewal, with the dying old religion and the emerging new, full political anarchy within the country and with the Scotch-typical thirst for political freedom. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Trotsenko provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.