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Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894. It contains three stories: "The Beach of Falesá" "The Bottle Imp" "The Isle of Voices"
"The Beach of Falesá", along with his two other South Seas tales in Island Nights' Entertainments, were generally poorly received by his peers in London. Stevenson was known and loved for his historical romances such as Treasure Island , Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae and so his shift to realism was not widely applauded.
Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (/ d ə ˈ l eɪ n i /, də-LAY-nee; born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic.His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.
Kirkus Reviews began "A haunting series of stories, in most cases putting it up to the reader to interpret the final outcome – in all cases using the device of the moment in life when emotion or reason reaches the point of tension beyond which something snaps", and finished with "In this collection...Daphne du Maurier's peerless craftmanship, her eerie sense of the macabre, her gift for ...
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As described by the author, Le Guin, in a recorded afterward to the 2016 audiobook version, as Tehanu opens, approximately 25 years have passed since the events at the end of The Tombs of Atuan, "time enough for the girl Tenar to become a widow with grown children"; and "a day or two" have passed since the close of The Farthest Shore and Tehanu's Chapter 4, "Kalessin", "time enough for [that ...