The Complete Short Stories (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Victorian adventures and eerie mysteries, from South Sea tales and New Arabian Nights to body-snatchers, brigands, and fablesBy Robert Louis Stevenson
Length41h 22m
About this audiobook
The Complete Short Stories gathers Robert Louis Stevenson's remarkably varied achievements in short fiction, from Gothic masterpieces such as "The Body-Snatcher" and "Markheim" to the ingenious linked tales of the New Arabian Nights and the morally charged island narratives of the South Seas. These stories combine romance, psychological suspense, adventure, and fable with a prose style at once lucid, musical, and tightly controlled. Written in the late Victorian period, they stand at the crossroads of sensation fiction, imperial adventure, and emerging modern psychological narrative. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and traveler whose fragile health and restless imagination shaped both his life and art. Born in Edinburgh in 1850, he resisted the engineering profession of his lighthouse-building family and pursued literature with unusual intensity. His travels through Europe, America, and the Pacific, together with his fascination with moral doubleness, social masks, and the romance of danger, deeply inform these compact narratives. This collection is recommended to readers who wish to encounter Stevenson beyond Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It reveals a writer of extraordinary range: elegant, unsettling, humane, and formally inventive. For students of Victorian literature and general readers alike, these stories offer enduring pleasures and serious reflections on conscience, identity, and civilization.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length41 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
26THE SUPERFLUOUS MANSION (Continued)
2Introduction
27ZERO’S TALE OF THE EXPLOSIVE BOMB
3Author Biography
28DESBOROUGH’S ADVENTURE
4Historical Context
29STORY OF THE FAIR CUBAN
5Synopsis (Selection)
30EPILOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN
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6Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales)
31The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
7THE BEACH OF FALESÁ. (pt. 1)
32THE MERRY MEN
8THE BEACH OF FALESÁ. (pt. 2)
33WILL O’ THE MILL.
9THE BOTTLE IMP.
34THRAWN JANET
10THE ISLE OF VOICES.
35OLALLA
11New Arabian Nights
36THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD.
12THE SUICIDE CLUB (pt. 1)
37THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON (pt. 1)
13THE SUICIDE CLUB (pt. 2)
38THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON (pt. 2)
14THE RAJAH’S DIAMOND (pt. 1)
39THE BODY-SNATCHER
15THE RAJAH’S DIAMOND (pt. 2)
40THE STORY OF A LIE
16THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS
41THE DEVIL AND THE INNKEEPER.
17A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT - A STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON
42THE TADPOLE AND THE FROG.
18THE SIRE DE MALETROIT’S DOOR
43THE PERSONS OF THE TALE.
19PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR
44THE SINKING SHIP.
20PROLOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN
45THE TWO MATCHES.
21CHALLONER’S ADVENTURE
46THE SICK MAN AND THE FIREMAN.
22STORY OF THE DESTROYING ANGEL
47THE PENITENT
23THE SQUIRE OF DAMES (Concluded)
48THE YELLOW PAINT.
24SOMERSET’S ADVENTURE
49THE HOUSE OF ELD.
25NARRATIVE OF THE SPIRITED OLD LADY
50THE FOUR REFORMERS.
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