"Two great novels of high adventure and family conflict The Master of Ballantrae is tempted away by adventure, and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. Believed dead, he returns to find that his younger brother has succeeded to his place and the woman he was to have married. Locked in bitter moral and physical conflict, the brothers embark on a course which leads ultimately towards mutual destruction. In Weir of Hemiston, Archie is the only child of Adam Weir, Lord Hermiston, the Lord Justice Clerk and notorious 'hanging judge'. When Archie witnesses his father sadistically hound a criminal to death at a trial, he speaks out and is banished to a remote village, where he becomes caught up in a clandestine romance and local intrigue. This, Stevenson's unfinished last novel, is thought by many to be his masterpiece, the most ambitious and profound of his works. A comprehensive edition, with introduction, select bibliography and glossary"