NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of short stories by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON first published by Chatto & Windus in 1882. It includes seven stories originally called Later-day Arabian Nights and published by London Magazine in serial format from June to October 1878, and four unconnected (standalone) stories that were previously published in other magazines: The title is an allusion to the collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights, which Stevenson had read and liked. "A Lodging for the Night" was Stevenson's first ever published fiction. In 1890 Arthur Conan Doyle characterized "The Pavilion on the Links" as "the high-water mark of Stevenson's genius" and "the first short-story in the world". Barry Menikoff (1987) considers New Arabian Nights to be the starting point in the history of the English-language short story.