Island Nights' Entertainments
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Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would be some of his last finished works before he died in 1894.
It contains three stories:
- The Beach of Falesá
- The Bottle Imp
- The Isle of Voices
[edit] The Dedication
The dedication was written in January 1892 in a letter to Charles Baxter, Robert Louis Stevenson's friend and adviser, and the book finally published in 1893.[1] The dedication reads:
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All three were Robert Louis Stevenson's fellow cabin passengers on the 1890 Janet Nicholl voyage.[2][3] Harry Henderson was a partner in the firm Henderson and Macfarlane (died 1926, Melbourne); Ben Hird, the supercargo and trader; Jack Buckland a copra trader and original of the Tommy Hadden character in The Wrecker.[4] Jack Buckland’s dedication copy of Island Nights’ Entertainments was inscribed by Stevenson to John B. Buncombe alias Buckland. A character called ‘young Buncombe’ makes a brief appearance in chapter 2 of The Beach of Falesá.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Volume Seven, September 1890 - December 1892. Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew (Editors). Yale University Press. [ISBN 9780300062137]
- ^ The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands, Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914.
- ^ R.L.S. and his Friends: Some Stevenson Memories. James Cowan, 1937, The New Zealand Railway Magazine, 1 May, pp. 59-61.
- ^ The Circular Saw Shipping Line. Anthony G. Flude. 1993. (Chapter 7)
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