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Currently on BBC Sounds:

“Olalla”, by Robert Louis Stevenson

During the Peninsular War a wounded soldier recuperates in a remote location. He falls in love with the daughter of the house, but her family hides a terrible secret…

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cft28

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Very cool! I do not use Gem, but perhaps at some point the will be available in other form/sources.

I am more of a (though I particularly love good ,) so of course I immediately picked up on the opening parallels to 's , which is why I bought it and read it. A ghost story! Excellent. I have not re-read it recently - I keep telling myself to find what else has written!

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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married , 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

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@bookstodon You can download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647

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“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.
“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”

For (UK), a fable about a book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Reader”

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Stevenson’s FABLES are little gems of , & – download all 20 as a free ebook here:

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/

XI – THE READER “I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor. “You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.” “That is true,” said the reader. “My quarrel is with your author.” “Ah, well,” said the book, “you need not buy his rant.” “That is true,” said the reader. “But I thought him such a cheerful writer.” “I find him so,” said the book. “You must be differently made from me,” said the reader. “Let me tell you a fable,” said the book. “There were two men wrecked upon a desert island; one of them made believe he was at home, the other admitted—” “O, I know your kind of fable,” said the reader. “They both died.” “And so they did,” said the book. “No doubt of that. And everybody else.” “That is true,” said the reader. “Push it a little further for this once. And when they were all dead?” “They were in God’s hands, the same as before,” said the book. “Not much to boast of, by your account,” cried the reader. “Who is impious now?” said the book. And the reader put him on the fire. The coward crouches from the rod, And loathes the iron face of God.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) , 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

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    Interesting for all sorts of reasons—a protagonist, a strong female character—“The Bottle Imp” is wonderfully elegant, & moves like a Swiss watch. It also contains a paradox, which arguably undermines Rational Choice Theory in

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    🖼️ William Hatherell, 1905

    An engraved book illustration. A Hawaiian man stands on he left, golding a wide-brimmed hat against his chest. On the right, a European man – bald, with a beard but no moustache – proffers a long-necked, fat-bellied bottle. He casts a dark shadow on the wall behind him, between the two figures. Caption: "'This is the bottle', said the man"
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    Stevenson’s “The Bottle Imp” has inspired a number of spinoffs, from the 2016 THE DEVIL INSIDE, by Stuart MacRae & Louise Welsh …

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    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/22/the-devil-inside-scottish-opera-music-theatre-wales-stuart-macrae-louise-welsh

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    … to the trick-taking FLASCHENTEUFEL, where the person left holding the bottle at the end of the game loses (& possibly goes to Hell, the rules are unclear on that point) …

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    The box for the card game "Flaschenteufel" ("The Bottle Imp"). Palm trees are silhouetted against a deep blue night sky. A long-necked, round-bellied bottle, with a strange, grinning, sun-like face on the front, dominates the image. The bottle glows with an unearthly red light.

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    … to our own free online ezine on Scottish literature at https://thebottleimp.org.uk

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    You can download our free ebook of “The Bottle Imp” (also containing two other supernatural masterpieces by Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet” & “The Tale of Tod Lapraik”) from our website …

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    https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/strangetales/

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    … or listen to Louise Welsh read “The Bottle Imp” here!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aAKz8ZhfIY

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