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The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables

Chapter 2: Dedication
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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A group of short tales and fables shifting between rugged coastal narrative, intimate psychological study, and supernatural parable. One story follows a return to a windswept island where the sea and hidden reefs shape fate; others dramatize conscience and crime, uncanny visitations, troubled inheritances, and decaying attachments. The prose alternates vivid natural description with close interiority and moral reflection. Recurring concerns include isolation, the hold of the past, and the ambiguous border where ordinary life yields to uncanny or ethical reckonings.

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Title: The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Release date: October 1, 1995 [eBook #344]
Most recently updated: May 17, 2021

Language: English

Credits: David Price

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MERRY MEN, AND OTHER TALES AND FABLES ***

The Merry Men
and
Other Tales and Fables

by
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

tenth edition

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1904

Three of the following Tales have appeared in the Cornhill Magazine; one in Longman’s; one in Mr. Henry Norman’s Christmas Annual; and one in the Court and Society Review. The Author desires to make proper acknowledgements to the Publishers concerned.

Dedication

My dear Lady Taylor,

To your name, if I wrote on brass, I could add nothing; it has been already written higher than I could dream to reach, by a strong and dear hand; and if I now dedicate to you these tales, it is not as the writer who brings you his work, but as the friend who would remind you of his affection.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Skerryvore, Bournemouth.

Contents

THE MERRY MEN
CHAPTER 1. EILEAN AROS
CHAPTER 2. WHAT THE WRECK HAD BROUGHT TO AROS
CHAPTER 3. LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG BAY
CHAPTER 4. THE GALE
CHAPTER 5. A MAN OUT OF THE SEA
WILL O’ THE MILL
CHAPTER 1. THE PLAIN AND THE STARS
CHAPTER 2. THE PARSON’S MARJORY
CHAPTER 3. DEATH
MARKHEIM
THRAWN JANET
OLALLA
THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD
CHAPTER 1. BY THE DYING MOUNTEBANK
CHAPTER 2. MORNING TALK
CHAPTER 3. THE ADOPTION
CHAPTER 4. THE EDUCATION OF A PHILOSOPHER
CHAPTER 5. TREASURE TROVE
CHAPTER 6. A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, IN TWO PARTS
CHAPTER 7. THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF DESPREZ
CHAPTER 8. THE WAGES OF PHILOSOPHY