South Sea Tales

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Jolly, Roslyn

• ISBN13: 9780192824394
• ISBN10: 0192824392
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member. In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

Table of Contents

The Beach of Falesá

The Bottle Imp

The Isle of Voices

The Ebb-Tide

A Trio and Quartette

The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse

Something In It

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