New Arabian Nights

By Robert Louis Stevenson and Stevenson-R L

Book Overview

Las nuevas noches rabes es una colecci n de cuentos de Robert Louis Stevenson, que se divide originalmente en dos vol menes. Esta edici n los agrupa en un solo libro. El t tulo de esta colecci n de... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B01HYAH3BW
• Release Date: January 1912
• Publisher: New York Current Literature Publishing Co.
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not really the new Arabian Nights, but a fine substitute

At the heart of the book are the six (or two, depending on how you count) stories about Prince Florizel ... these stories if any capture something of what "The Arabian Nights" would have been if it had been written in the nineteenth century. The central character is an impossibly noble and high-minded Prince Florizel, who the author appears to believe in with the utmost seriousness - at least until the very end. They tend to begin with a mystery so intriguing that it doesn't even matter if the solution is less brilliant than we would have thought. "Ruritanian romance" is the best description. Ruritania itself is not so Ruritanian as this.The non-Florizel stories are none of them favourites of mine - which is merely to say that I don't rank them up there with, say, "The Bottle Imp". All of Stevenson's short fiction is worth reading.