Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–94),Scottish writer of adventure stories and travel essays, especially known for Treasure Island (1883) and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), both of which have become Western cultural icons. Over the course of his lifetime, Stevenson published three collections of tales. His first collection, New Arabian Nights (1882) includes ‘The Suicide Club’ and ‘The Rajah's Diamond’, in which Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine parody The Arabian Nights' Harun ar‐Rashid and his grand‐vizier. The title story of The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) draws from Scottish lore, and his third collection, Island Nights' Entertainments (1893), contains a Faustian tale set in Hawaii, ‘The Bottle Imp’, in which Keawe buys a magic bottled imp and is granted all he desires, but must sell it before he dies...
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