Roadmate Ballantra. House on the dunes

For winter, Shakespeare used to say, sad fairy tales are suitable. The story of the Scottish family of Darrisdirov, the ruler of Ballantra - sparkling like snow, ballad in which two irreconcilable elements came together in the forehead. Two brothers, two heirs of ancient possessions, lived - did not push, each in their own way. The elder, James, was brazel, cameparate, dragged behind his skirts, the youngest, Henry, the fishing, healed horses, helped the household. But the time has come to choose who to serve and to whom to serve is George English or Stuart"s rebel. The thunder struck, the fire blazed, and the brothers instantly became enemies, and yesterday"s bearers of fate - her toys. Wave and stone, they came together like ice and flame ...
The next volume of the "adventure masters" opens the absolute masterpiece of Robert Luis Stevenson "Owner Ballantra" - a novel, full of intrigue, wandering and contradictions, deep as an ocean, merciless as a blade and unpredictable as a tossed coin. The book also includes the writer"s early story "House on the Dunes", which caused delight in Conan Doyle, who in his memoirs called her "one of the greatest stories in the world."