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The complete short stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a selection of the best short novels / edited with an introduction by Charles Neider.
LIBRA - Special PR5482 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1998
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 678 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Collected works include "The Suicide Club," "The Rajah's Diamond," "The Story of a Lie," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
- Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a writer of power and originality, who penned such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Weir of Hermiston. The editor has collected in convenient form Stevenson's short fiction, including the complete New Arabian Nights and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as ghost stories, medieval romances, farces, horror stories, and the South Sea tales. This volume amply illustrates his wide range and enduring appeal.
- Contents:
- Lodging for the night
- Suicide Club: Story of the young man with the cream tarts / Story of the physician and the Saratoga trunk / Adventure of the Hansom cab
- Rajah's Diamond: Story of the bandbox / Story of the young man in Holy Orders / Story of the house with the green blinds / Adventure of Prince Florizel and a detective
- Providence and the guitar
- Sire de Maletroit's door
- Will o' the mill
- Story of a lie
- Thrawn Janet
- Merry men
- Body-snatcher
- Markheim
- Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Bottle imp
- Beach of Falesa
- Isle of Voices.
- ISBN:
- 030680882X
- 9780306808821
- OCLC:
- 38930634
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