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Title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: December 11, 2009 [EBook #30650]
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THE WORKS OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
SWANSTON EDITION
VOLUME XXI
_Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies
have been printed, of which only Two Thousand
Copies are for sale._
_This is No._ ...........
[Illustration: R.L.S. ON THE FORWARD DECK OF THE SCHOONER "EQUATOR"]
THE WORKS OF
ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON
VOLUME TWENTY-ONE
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM
HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN
AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
THE STORY OF A LIE
CHAPTER PAGE
I. INTRODUCES THE ADMIRAL 3
II. A LETTER TO THE PAPERS 8
III. IN THE ADMIRAL'S NAME 14
IV. ESTHER ON THE FILIAL RELATION 21
V. THE PRODIGAL FATHER MAKES HIS DEBUT AT HOME 24
VI. THE PRODIGAL FATHER GOES ON FROM STRENGTH TO
STRENGTH 31
VII. THE ELOPEMENT 41
VIII. BATTLE ROYAL 50
IX. IN WHICH THE LIBERAL EDITOR APPEARS AS
"DEUS EX MACHINA" 60
THE MERRY MEN
I. EILEAN AROS 69
II. WHAT THE WRECK HAD BROUGHT TO AROS 76
III. LAND AND SEA IN SANDAG BAY 89
IV. THE GALE 100
V. A MAN OUT OF THE SEA 112
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