The Dynamiter

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van der Grift Stevenson.


Contents

• "Prologue of the Cigar Divan"
• "Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames"
• "Story of the Destroying Angel"
• "The Squire of Dames (Concluded)"
• "Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion"
• "Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady"
• "The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)"
• "Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb"
• "The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)"
• "Desborough's Adventure: The Brown Box"
• "Story of the Fair Cuban"
• "The Brown Box (Concluded)"
• "The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded)"
• "Epilogue of the Cigar Divan"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788832511864
Publisher:	iOnlineShopping.com
Publication date:	02/08/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875