Complete Stories, Fables and Short Novels of R.L. Stevenson with a Selection of his Essays on the Art of Writing

TABLE OF CONTENTS




Essays on the Art of Writing

ON THE ENJOYMENT OF UNPLEASANT PLACES (1874)
A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE (1882)
BOOKS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ME (1887)
ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE (1885)
A NOTE ON REALISM (1883)
MY FIRST BOOK: ‘TREASURE ISLAND’ (1894)


The Complete Stories and Short Novels

NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS (1882)
Contents:
The Suicide Club
The Rajah's Diamond
The Pavilion on the Links
A Lodging for the Night - a Story of Francis Villon
The Sire de Maletroit's Door
Providence and the Guitar

THE DYNAMITER and Other Stories (1885)

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1886)

THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER TALES AND FABLES (1887)
Contents
The Merry Men
i. Eilean Aros
ii. What the wreck had brought to Aros
iii. Land and sea in Sandag Bay
iv. The gale
v. A man out of the sea
Will o’ the Mill
Markheim
Thrawn Janet
Olalla
The Treasure of Franchard
i. By the dying Mountebank
ii. Morning tale
iii. The adoption
iv. The education of the philosopher
v. Treasure trove
vi. A criminal investigation, in two parts
vii. The fall of the House of Desprez
viii. The wages of philosophy

ISLAND NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS (1893)

Contents:
The Beach of Falesá

-A south sea bridal

-The Ban

-The Missionary

-Devil-work

-Night in the bush


The Bottle Imp
The Isle of Voices


OTHER TALES
The Misadventures of John Nicholson (1887)
The Body-Snatcher (1884)
The Story of a Lie (1882)

Complete FABLES (1896)