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New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.
A revised version was included in New Arabian Nights (1882). [2] The story was considered by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1890 as "the high-water mark of [Stevenson’s] genius" and "the first short story in the world". [3] Along with a number of other stories it was collected in a volume entitled New Arabian Nights in 1882.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
A drawing of Joseph Charles Mardrus. Joseph Charles Mardrus, otherwise known as "Jean-Charles Mardrus" (1868–1949), was a French physician, poet, and a noted translator.. Today he is best known for his translation of the Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, which was published from 1898 to 1904, [1] and was in turn rendered into English by Edward Powys Mathe
Two notable novels loosely based on The Nights are Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz and When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan. The children's novel The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey is also loosely derived from The Nights. Larry Niven, a Science Fiction & Fantasy author, wrote The Tale of the Jenni and the Sisters.
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 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.
New Poems (1880) The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (1882–4) translation in nine volumes; Tales from the Arabic (1884) The Novels of Matteo Bandello, Bishop of Agen (1890) translation in six volumes; The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1886) translation in three volumes