Fiction · 1905
Tales and Fantasies
Tales and Fantasies, first published in 1905, 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
- Chapter I — The Misadventures of John Nicholson: In Which John Sows the Wind
- Chapter II — In Which John Reaps the Whirlwind
- Chapter III — In Which John Enjoys the Harvest Home
- Chapter IV — The Second Sowing
- Chapter V — The Prodigal’s Return
- Chapter VI — The House at Murrayfield
- Chapter VII — A Tragi-Comedy in a Cab
- Chapter VIII — Singular Instance of the Utility of Pass-Keys
- Chapter IX — In Which Mr. Nicholson Accepts the Principle of an Allowance
- The Body-Snatcher
- Chapter I — The Story of a Lie: Introduces the Admiral
- Chapter II — A Letter to the Papers
- Chapter III — In the Admiral’s Name
- Chapter IV — Esther on the Filial Relation
- Chapter V — The Prodigal Father Makes His Debut at Home
- Chapter VI — The Prodigal Father Goes on from Strength to Strength
- Chapter VII — The Elopement
- Chapter VIII — Battle Royal
- Chapter IX — In Which the Liberal Editor Re-Appears as ‘Deus Ex Machina’
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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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