South Sea tales
By: Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly.
Contributors: Jolly, Roslyn.
Series: The world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction; Oceania -- Fiction
Description: In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member.

In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The beach of Falesá; title: The bottle imp; title: The isle of voices; title: The ebb-tide; title: The cart-horses and the saddle-horse; title: Something in it.