''Island Nights' Entertainments'' (also known as ''South Sea Tales'') is a collection of short stories by

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894. It contains three stories: *" The Beach of Falesá" *"

The Bottle Imp "The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection ''Island Nights' Entertainments''. It was first published in the '' New York Herald'' (February–March 1891) and ...

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The Isle of Voices "The Isle of Voices" is a short story written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in his collection ''Island Nights' Entertainments'' in 1893. Plot The protagonist is a man named Keola living on the island of Molokai, Hawaii. Keola and hi ...

Dedication

The dedication was written in January 1892 in a letter to Charles Baxter,

's friend and adviser, and the book finally published in 1893.''The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Volume Seven, September 1890 - December 1892.'' Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mehew (Editors). Yale University Press. The dedication reads: All three were Robert Louis Stevenson's fellow cabin passengers on the 1890 ''Janet Nicholl'' voyage.''The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Among the South Sea Islands''
Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson,

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, New York, 1914. James Cowan, (1937)
R. L. S. and his Friends Some Stevenson Memories
''New Zealand Railways Magazine'', 12(2):59-61. Harry Henderson was a partner in the firm ''Henderson and Macfarlane'' (died 1926, Melbourne); Ben Hird, the supercargo and trader;

Jack Buckland John Wilberforce "Jack" Buckland (1864–1897), also known as "Tin Jack", was a trader who lived in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. He travelled with Robert Louis Stevenson and his stories of life as an island trader became the insp ...

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trader and original of the Tommy Hadden character in ''The Wrecker''.''The Circular Saw Shipping Line.''
Anthony G. Flude. 1993. (Chapter 7) Jack Buckland’s dedication copy of ''Island Nights’ Entertainments'' was inscribed by Stevenson to "Jack Buckland, from Robert Louis Stevenson".

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