by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson is in a constant shoving match with Trollope to be my favorite Victorian. If it comes down to it, its pretty clear which man would win.Hint: Its not the one who writes sensitive drawing room think-pieces.'The Master of Ballantrae' has all the trappings of an adventure story, b...
bookshelves: adventure, classic, historical-fiction, revenge, britain-scotland, victorian, seven-seas, war, published-1889, hardback Read in June, 2009, read count: 2 Description: Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wildernes...
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Cannot pass up an opportunity to listen to this as a re-read. Stars David Rintoul and Liam Brennan.Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 3:00am Saturday 10th July 2010Duration:60 minutesAvailable until:4:02am Saturday 17th July 2010Categories:Drama, Classic & PeriodCredits:Susan HampshirePhilip LathamRoland Cul...
A very fragile copy of my mothers - faded red cloth, inscirbed Gillian R Tanner(1956) and the price? 4/-That's four shillings to us who remember the ol' conundrums.At that time [1745:] there dwelt a family of four persons in the house of Durrisdeer, near St Brides, on the Solway shore; a chief hold ...
[These notes were made in 1983; I read a 1925 edition:]. There's a certain amount of good, clean picaresque fun in this book. But it is overshadowed by a gloomy attempt at psychological characterization - of a man embittered by the monstrous behaviour of a quasi-Gothic brother (said brother does a ...
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