Fiction · 1896
Fables
Fables, first published in 1896, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- I.—The Persons of the Tale
- II.—The Sinking Ship
- III—The Two Matches
- IV.—The Sick Man and the Fireman
- V.—The Devil and the Innkeeper
- VI.—The Penitent
- VII.—The Yellow Paint
- VIII.—The House of Eld
- Moral
- IX.—The Four Reformers
- X.—The Man and His Friend
- XI.—The Reader
- XII.—The Citizen and the Traveller
- XIII.—The Distinguished Stranger
- XIV.—The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse
- XV.—The Tadpole and the Frog
- XVI.—Something in It
- Moral
- XVII.—Faith, Half Faith and No Faith at All
- XVIII.—The Touchstone
- XIX.—The Poor Thing
- XX.—The Song of the Morrow
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About the author
1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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