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Tales and Fantasies

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Tales and Fantasies is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson.[1] The book was published posthumously in 1905.[2][3] It contains three stories,[4] which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime:

  • "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story" (1885–87). First published in Yule Tide, 1887, later in the Edinburgh Edition, 1897.
  • "The Body Snatcher" (1881). First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette, later in the Edinburgh Edition, 1895.
  • "The Story of a Lie" (1879). First published in New Quarterly Magazine in 1879; later in The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol 3, 1895.

References

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  1. ^ Robert Louis Stevenson (15 September 2010). Tales and Fantasies. pubOne.Info. ISBN 978-2-8199-1791-5.
  2. ^ J R Hammond (25 November 1984). A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, Essays and Short Stories. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-1-349-06080-1.
  3. ^ Andrew Maunder (1 January 2007). The Facts on File Companion to the British Short Story. Infobase Publishing. pp. 401–2. ISBN 978-0-8160-7496-9.
  4. ^ Robert Louis Stevenson (17 November 2013). Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated). Delphi Classics. pp. 2903–. ISBN 978-1-908909-16-9.
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