The Master of Ballantrae
Subtitle: A Winter's Tale (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780140434460
First sentence: Although an old, consistent exile, the editor of the following pages revisits now and again the city of which he exults to be a native; and there are few things more strange, more painful, or more salutary, than such revisitations.