New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s stories about the adventures of Prince Florizel were published as “Later-day Arabian Nights” in London Magazine in 1878. They were re-released as New Arabian Nights in 1882, as the books in two volumes, which the second part is a collection of written before individual three stories and one novella, which don’t relate to New Arabian Nights, and therefore I’m not intending to review them, though there can find a lot of fascinating.

The author was always talented and masterful with prose. He knows how to show the feelings of characters, and his twists can be surprising, even if you guess about them, but he was an excellent teller. The adventures of the Bohemian prince Florizel are “The Suicide Club” and “The Rajah’s Diamond”. Both are intriguing stories which reflect the customs, worldview, and territorial stance of the Great Britain at that time. I’m critical toward conclusion of “The Rajah’s Diamond”. If all accidents and coincidences before that were acceptable to believe, but an escaping character coming to a café in that he meets Florizel, who is investigating, is hard to accept. Nevertheless, it’s forgivable for the whole story, which doesn’t keep to standard in the end in contrast to the previous ones, and I love it for that.

There are many wonderful sentences in the text. As well, there are a few discrepancies, of which there are three. “The name of Prince struck gratefully on Silas’s Republican hearing, and the aspect of the person to whom that name was applied exercised its usual charm upon his mind.” What kind like can to be from a man with opposite political governance? Depicting that only rats made sounds in ten minutes, while that paragraph shares a stance of a character that is not for creating of silence, “his breath whistled in his lungs, his teeth grated one upon another, and his joints cracked aloud as he nervously shifted his position.” Calling “deserters” people who didn’t want to participate in unknown venture can point to a narrator’s view, but it is a misfire to claim that a general of the British army in “The Rajah’s Diamond” was a poor man, and that will contradicting in revealing his earned wealth. Nevertheless, none of this is detrimental to narratives.