New Arabian Nights

Table of Contents:

The Suicide Club
Story of The Young Man With The Cream
Tarts
Story of The Physician And The Saratoga Trunk
The Adventure of The
Hansom Cabs
The Rajah's Diamond
Story of The
Bandbox
Story of The Young Man In Holy Orders
Story of The House With The
Green Blinds
The Adventure of Prince Florizel And A Detective
The
Pavilion on The Links: -I- | -II- | -III- | -IV- | -V- | -VI- | -VII- |
-VIII- | -IX-
A Lodging For The Night - A Story of Francis
Villon
The Sire De Maletroit's Door
Providence And The Guitar:
-I- | -II- | -III- | -IV- | -V- | -VI-

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 short story tradition.

The title is an allusion to the collection of tales known as the 1001
Arabian Nights, which Stevenson had read and liked. Although Stevenson's
stories were set in modern Europe, he was stylistically drawing a connection to
the nested structure of the Arabian tales. Two eagerly awaited translations of
the Arabian Nights, by Richard F. Burton and John Payne, were in the
works in the late 1870s and early 1880s, further helping to draw popular
attention to Stevenson's "New" title.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.