: Robert Louis Stevenson
: The Dynamiter
: Dead Dodo Classic Press
: 9781518300370
: 1
: CHF 0.70
:
: Erzählende Literatur
: English
: 300
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift.

 

'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'

PROLOGUE OF THE CIGAR DIVAN


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IN THE CITY OF ENCOUNTERS, the Bagdad of the West, and, to be more precise, on the broad northern pavement of Leicester Square, two young men of five- or six-and-twenty met after years of separation. The first, who was of a very smooth address and clothed in the best fashion, hesitated to recognise the pinched and shabby air of his companion.

‘What!’ he cried, ‘Paul Somerset!’

‘I am indeed Paul Somerset,’ returned the other, ‘or what remains of him after a well-deserved experience of poverty and law. But in you, Challoner, I can perceive no c