''More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter'' (
1885
Events
January
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) is a collection of linked
short stories
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by
Robert Louis Stevenson
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and
Fanny van de Grift Stevenson.
Contents
*"Prologue of the Cigar Divan"
*"Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames"
*"Story of the Destroying Angel"
*"The Squire of Dames (Concluded)"
*"Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion"
*"Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady"
*"The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)"
*"Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb"
*"The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)"
*"Desborough's Adventure: The Brown Box"
*"Story of the Fair Cuban"
*"The Brown Box (Concluded)"
*"The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded)"
*"Epilogue of the Cigar Divan"
External links
Deciphering The Dynamiter: A Study in Authorship Attribution
* Digitised copy o
''More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter''from the Longmans, Green & Co edition (1885) from
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1885 short story collections
Mormonism in fiction
Short story collections by Robert Louis Stevenson
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