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Download or read book Island Nights Entertainments Illustrated Edition written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Island Nights' Entertainments is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894. It contains three stories: "The Beach of Falesá" "The Bottle Imp" "The Isle of Voices"

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