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Jazzybee Verlag
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Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Stevenson's
title
for
these
tales
of
imagination
clearly
shows
what
he
intended
their
character
to
be.
Plainly
they
were
not
meant
to
be
realistic.
Their
stilted,
artificial
style
is
out
of
keeping
with
such
an
object.
They
were
evidently
to
be
stories
which
are
entertaining
in
the
same
way
that
the
"Arabian
Nights"
is
entertaining,
with
just
as
little
pretence
of
realism.
As
a
child
in
his
grandfather's
manse
at
Colinton
he
had
devoured
the
eastern
tales;
the
New
Arabian
Nights,
written
when
he
was
twenty-eight,
are
a
special
form
of
literary
invention
which
came
easily
from
Stevenson's
habit
of
investing
the
most
ordinary
places
and
people
with
the
wildest
romance.
The
stories
are
peculiar
in
that
their
artificial
style
leaves
one
ungripped
by
the
horror
of
adventure,
such
as
those
of
The
Suicide
Club.
But
the
artificiality
was
clearly
deliberate;
when
he
wanted,
no
one
better
than
Stevenson
could
write
tales
of
horror
to
make
the
flesh
creep.
He
did
in
fact
project
a
series
of
this
kind,
of
which
only
one
or
two
were
completed.
But
in
the
New
Arabian
Nights
it
is
easy
to
see
his
precise
aim
at
a
lighter
effect.
No
doubt
the
pleasure
in
the
technical
problem
—
at
once
Stevenson's
curse,
and
the
source
of
his
unequalled
prose
—
prompted
this experiment.
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