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The only book of Stevenson's written in collaboration with his wife, to whose powers of invention and descriptive writing the greater part of it is due. It had its origin at the time of his slow and perilous recovery from the nearly fatal illness at Hyeres in the spring of 1884. Forbidden to speak and under orders to lie in darkness, the long hours were relieved by tales which Mrs. Stevenson made up for his amusement. A few months afterwards, when they had settled at Bournemouth, where Louis was to live the life of a delicate girl, these stories were drawn upon as material for a series planned on the lines of the New Arabian Nights of six years before. Though the form is broadly the same — a set of interdependent narratives over which the long arm of coincidence was never more widely waved — the style is notably different from that of the previous series. This is explained by the fact that only the prologue and epilogue and the tale of "The Explosive Bomb" are Stevenson's own writing. All the rest of the book was the invention, and the actual writing of Mrs. Stevenson ; her husband's share in it consisting apparently in revisions and touches by which he was able with great facility to impress a large measure of his own style upon his wife's work.

*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. 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"

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, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 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, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, 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." -wikipedia

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He is best known for "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter is a collection of linked short stories co-written with his wife, Frances (Fanny) Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (1840-1914).