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The Suicide Club is an 1878 collection of three 19th-century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights.
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .
The Rajah's Diamond is a cycle of four short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1878 in a serial periodical London Magazine, they were republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights. The stories are: "Story of the Bandbox" "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders" "Story of the House with the Green Blinds"
The lengthy voyage of the stolen ship has been described as "a microcosm of imperialist society, directed by greedy but incompetent whites, the labour supplied by long-suffering natives who fulfil their duties without orders and are true to the missionary faith which the Europeans make no pretence of respecting".
Paris is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd published in 2013, which charts the history of Paris from 1261 to 1968. The novel follows six core families [ 1 ] set in locales such as Montmartre , Notre Dame and Boulevard Saint-Germain . [ 2 ]
The 1969 Jack Bruce song "Weird of Hermiston" gets its name from the book, although the lyrics make no reference to the story. In the movie version of Fahrenheit 451, one of the characters has memorized the book, and is teaching it to his nephew before he dies. The Robert Louis Stevenson website maintains a complete list of derivative works. [11]
At the death of Louis XV, when de Sartine is named State Secretary of the Navy, Nicolas comes under the orders of Monsieur Le Noir. At the beginning of his time in Paris, before the start of the main action in the series, he had a liaison with a young woman, Antoinette Godelet, who later falls into prostitution under the name of La Satin, and ...
Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885. The novel was largely written during 1883. Stevenson referred to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort". One of its chapters was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and once by his wife.