New Arabian nights, By Robert Louis Stevenson (World's Classics) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537114323)

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. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN-10: 1537114328
ISBN-13: 9781537114323
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2016
Pages: 170
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.36d