by Robert Louis Stevenson · Orbis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476344682
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«El señor de Ballantrae» is the adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, published by Orbis in paperback (182 pages, in Spanish).
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, the Durie brothers are separated forever: James fights for the rebel cause and disappears after the defeat at Culloden, while Henry remains at the family mansion and succeeds his father. When James reappears, the enmity becomes a spiral of revenge that drags them from Scotland to America.
Volume 74 of the collection «Las Grandes Novelas de Aventuras», in a translation by M. Ochoa and P. Azcoyen. Work originally published as «The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale» in 1889.
For readers of adventure classics and historical fiction, especially those interested in stories set in eighteenth-century Scotland.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
