New Arabian Nights

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Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains the first fiction published by Stevenson , and some stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering work in the English short story tradition.

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Structure

New Arabian Nights is divided into two volumes.

Volume 1

The first volume contains seven stories originally called the Arab Night-Later Nights and published by London Magazine in serial format from June to October 1878. It consists of two story groups, or a cycle :

• "The Suicide Club"
• "The Rajah's Diamond"

Volume 2

The second volume is a collection of four irrelevant (standalone) stories previously published in the magazine:

• "The Pavilion on the Links" (1880), told in 9 mini-chapters
• "A Lodge for the Night" (1877)
• "The Sire De MalÃÆ'Â © troits Door" (1877)
• "Providence and the Guitar" (1878)

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Allusions to other works

The title is an allusion to the collection of stories known as Thousand and One Nights, , which Stevenson has read and liked. Although Stevenson's stories are set in modern Europe, he styles draw connections to the nested structures of Arab stories. Two long-awaited translations of Arabian Nights, by Richard F. Burton and John Payne, were in progress in the late 1870s and early 1880s, further helping to attract popular attention to the "New" the title of Stevenson.

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Literary meaning and criticism

"A Lodging for the Night" is Stevenson's first fiction. In 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle characterized "The Pavilion on the Links" as "Stevenson's high genius" and "the first short story in the world". Barry Menikoff (1987) considers New Arabian Nights a starting point in the history of English short stories.

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References

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External links

• New Arab Night in Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
• New Arabian Nights in the Internet Archive (scanned original edition textbook)
• New Arabian Nights public domain audiobook on LibriVox

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