Island Nights' Entertainments (annotated), by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Beach of Falesa -- A south sea bridal -- The Ban -- The Missionary -- Devil-work -- Night in the bush -- The Bottle Imp -- The Isle of voices.
Island Nights' Entertainments (annotated), by Robert Louis Stevenson- Published on: 2015-10-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .31" w x 6.00" l, .42 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 134 pages
About the Author Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a prolific Scottish poet and novelist in the 19th century. He was admired by many other authors, and his work includes The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He died in 1894.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Robert Louis Stevenson at his best By Story-Reviewer ISLAND NIGHTS'ENTERTAINMENTS is one of the best works of R. L. Stevenson (TREASURE ISLAND and DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE). Stevenson excelled at adventure stories with a slightly dark twist, and this collection of four tales, some of his best, is no exception.The collection contains: THE BEACH OF FALESA, a novella revolving around a British trader on an island in South-West Asia, and the dangers and troubles he gets himself into after marrying a supposedly "cursed" woman. This is a wonderful tale, with twists and turns aplenty; THE BOTTLE IMP, a short story about a young man in San Francisco, who comes a across a small bottle that houses a devil that grants any wish, but at a terrible price. This a modern fairytale, brilliantly written, with three-dimensional characters, and an exquisite sense of place; and the final story is THE ISLE OF VOICES, a short, compelling tale of suspense, magic, and evil, set in a remote island.All in all, this is a hugely entertaining read, featuring some of Stevenson's finest writing. Unmissable.If you like this you might also like: New Arabian Nights by Stevenson, Flower of Scotland by William Meikle, an original collection of speculative tales, and 9 Lives: Stories for Cat Lovers by A. Kale, a collection of truly original tales that span many genres.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Great Story About the South Pacific By Richard In the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, California, there are some photographs of Robert Louis Stevenson dating from his time in Samoa. One of them shows Stevenson and a large number of Samoans sitting on the floor of the porch at his home in Vailima, the spaces in front of the guests piled high with Samoan food.This photo shows why Stevenson is one of only three or four white people who understood Samoa and showed this in their writings about Polynesia.One of the three works in Island Nights' Entertainments is "The Beach at Falesa." This collection is worth buying for this story (is it a long story or a short novel?) aloneThe story concerns a trader who is newly arrived in Samoa to conduct copra (dried coconut meat, from which oil is expressed) trading. Another trader is the villain. There is a beautiful Polynesian woman involved, as are fears of local ghosts and spirits, not to mention a missionary and a Catholic priest.As far as I know, I have the odd qualification of being the only person in the last half century to research (in Samoa) and to write a long article about Samoan ghost (aitu) beliefs. It can be found in The Journal of the Polynesian Society. I mention this because Stevenson got all thew material he included about aitu in "The Beach at Falesa" correct, and this represents quite a but of knowledge about Samoans and their beliefs.The Samoan language is correct, too.And I must say that the missionary he describes was a little more intelligent and broad-minded than the ones I actually met out there in the Pacific.Stevenson is a great writer. You won't be disappointed when you read his works.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Island Nights' Entertainments By Stephen Balbach `Island Nights' Entertainments` is a collection of short-stories by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1893. Stevenson died young in 1894 so this is some of his last works but represents a signal change in his writing style that left some clue to where he was headed had he lived longer. Stevenson was best known and beloved for his Romantic works like `Treasure Island`, `Jekyll and Hyde` and `Kidnapped`. But when he decided to move to the worlds most romantic place, the South Seas, his work took a turn towards realism. Stevenson no doubt thought he was growing up and becoming a more "serious" writer, although some of his contemporary critics at the time thought his realist works were among his most forgettable and that it was a shame he didn't stick with what he was best known for. However what his critics could not see was that realism was soon to morph into modernism through the introduction of symbolism, and Stevenson was already beginning to experiment, at least a decade before Joseph Conrad. I have no doubt that had Stevenson lived he would have been known as a modernism pioneer, he was just on the cusp with stories like "The Beach of Falesa". This represents Stevenson's first realistic story, focused less on the plot than on the mannerisms of society. As Stevenson wrote in a letter to his friend back in England: "It is the first realistic South Seas story; I mean with real South Sea character and details of life. Everybody else that has tried, that I have seen, got carried away by the romance, and ended in a kind of sugar candy sham epic, and the whole effect was lost - there was not etching, no human grin, consequently no conviction. Now I have got the smell and look of the thing a good deal. You will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library."
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