The Bottle Imp (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1893
- Type of Plot: Fairy tale
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: Hawaii
- Principal Characters: Keawe, Kokua, Lopaka
- Genres: Short fiction, Fairy tale
- Subjects: Love or romance, Good and evil, Diseases
- Locales: Hawaii
The Story
While making a visit to San Francisco “to have a sight of the great world,” Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, admires the opulent houses of the rich. He is particularly impressed by one house, which, while smaller than the rest, is “all finished and beautified like a toy.” To his surprise, he discovers that the elderly man who lives in this beautiful house is “heavy with sorrow” and sighs constantly. The elderly man tells Keawe that his house and all his fortune came from an imp who lives in a magic bottle. The imp will grant any wish that the owner of the...
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