For Mr. Emmanuelito and customers who want information on the content of these two volumes (they "go together" ...) news R.-L. Stevenson; this information comes from the introduction written by Michel Le Bris who directed this year at "Libretto / Phoebus" (pocket):
The first volume includes all the news that constitute what is called "The New Arabian Nights": "The New Arabian Nights" will exist in French, in a compliant version finally the wish of the author, that 'with the edition that we have given in 1992 (Ed Phoebus, 3 flight..) - which corresponds to the first volume of this "Ultimate". This edition still remains the only one wanting to complete, since the first volume of "Works" Stevenson in the "Library of the Pleiades" (Gallimard, Paris, 2001) includes only the first delivery of "Nights" the second, "The Blaster", being delivered out of the framework agreed by the writer (...) "(from the preface by Michel Le Bris, op. cit., p. 11).
CONTENTS:
Volume 1:
- "" The devil is not dead yet, "or the genesis of an art; the news Stevenson" by Michel Le Bris, pp 9-25,
- "Farewell to bohemian years, Introduction to" New Arabian Nights "", by Michel Le Bris, pp 25-45,
- "The New Arabian Nights, First Delivery":
- Bibliographic note,
- The Suicide Club, pp 53-133
I. History of the young man with the cream tarts,
II. History of the doctor and Saratoga Trunk,
II. The adventure of cabs
- The Diamond Rajah, pp 133-215,
I. History of the hat box,
II. History of the young cleric,
III. History of Green blinds,
IV. The adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective
- The Pavilion on the moor, pp 215-277
New in 9 chapters,
- A lodging for the night: History of François Villon, pp 277-301,
- The door of the Sire of Malétroit, pp 301-325,
- Providence and guitar, pp 325-361,
The New Arabian Nights: Second delivery:
- When we played Scheherazade ... by Fanny Osbourne, pp pp 361-369,
- Bibliographic record,
- Note to the reader,
- The Blaster, pp 375-588
- Prologue to the Divan of the cigar,
- The adventure of Challoner: the knight,
- History of Exterminating Angel,
- The knight, conclusion,
- The adventure of Somerset: Dwelling superfluous
- Story of the old lady spirited,
- The remains superfluous result,
- Zero tells the story of the explosive bomb
- The remains superfluous end
- The adventure of Desborough: the tan chest,
- History of Cuban beautiful,
- The safe tan: conclusion
- The remains superfluous conclusion,
- Epilogue to the Divan of the cigar,
END of the first volume.
CONTENTS (continued):
Second volume:
Each new is preceded by a comment and a bibliographic record,
- The moral of the story, introduction by Michel Le Bris, pp 9-17,
- The Plagued cellar, pp 17-27,
- When the devil was young, pp 27-65,
- Edifying Letters of the Rutherford family, pp 65-85,
- An old song, pp 85-127,
- Will the Mill, pp 127-155,
- History of a lie, pp 155-217,
- Janet's ghost, pp 217-231,
- The corpse providers, pp 231-255,
- The lads gays, pp 255-313,
- Treasure Franchard, pp 313-379,
- Markheim, pp 379-399
- The Misadventures of John Nicholson, pp 399-467,
- History of Tod Lapraik, pp 467-477,
- Olalla, pp 477-525, (in a translation by Alfred Jarry)
- The sorceress, pp 525-545,
- The frenzied bottle, pp 545-579,
- Those Falesa, pp 579-659,
New in 5 chapters,
I. A wedding in the southern seas,
II. Exclusion,
III. The missionary,
IV. Devils,
V. A night in the bush,
- The island vote (in a translation by Pierre Leyris), pp 659-683,
- Thorgunna solitary, pp 683-707,
- Fables, pp 707-760,
The "Fables" include 22 "chapters" or short "securities", which I did not copy them here.
END of the second volume.
I hope these guidelines will be helpful to those who want to discover the work of Robert Louis Stevenson?
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