The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
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London: CHATTO & WINDUS, III St. Martin's Lane, W.C.
Works by Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage.
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes.
Travels with a Donkey.
Virginibus Puerisque.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books.
New Arabian Nights.
Treasure Island.
The Silverado Squatters.
A Child's Garden of Verses.
Prince Otto.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Kidnapped.
The Merry Men.
Underwoods.
Memories and Portraits.
The Black Arrow.
The Master of Ballantrae.
Father Damien: An Open Letter.
Ballads.
Across the Plains.
Island Nights Entertainments.
A Footnote to History.
Catriona.
Weir of Hermiston.
Vailima Letters.
Fables.
Songs of Travel.
St. Ives.
In the South Seas
with Mrs. Stevenson
with Lloyd Osbourne
THE MERRY MEN
AND
OTHER TALES AND FABLES
BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
FINE-PAPER EDITION
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1905
Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press
My dear Lady Taylor,
To your name, if I wrote on brass, I could add nothing; it has been already written higher than I could dream to reach, by a strong and a dear hand; and if I now dedicate to you these tales, it is not as the writer who brings you his work, but as the friend who would remind you of his affection.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Skerryvore, Bournemouth.
CONTENTS
PAGE
Chap. I. | Eilean Aros |
1 |
II. | What the Wreck had brought to Aros |
9 |
III. | Land and Sea in Sandag Bay |
25 |
IV. | The Gale |
38 |
V. | A Man out of the Sea |
52 |
68 |
104 |
128 |
143 |
Chap. I. | By the Dying Mountebank |
201 |
II. | Morning Talk |
206 |
III. | The Adoption |
214 |
IV. | The Education of a Philosopher |
223 |
V. | Treasure Trove |
235 |
VII. | A Criminal Investigation, in two Parts |
251 |
VII. | The Fall of the House of Desprez |
264 |
VIII. | The Wages of Philosophy |
275 |
Three of the following Tales have appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine"; one in "Longman's"; one in Mr. Henry Norman's "Christmas Annual"; and one in the "Court and Society Review." The Author desires to make proper acknowledgments to the Publishers concerned.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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