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The Beach of Falesá

Robert Louis Stevenson

First published 1893
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

When Wiltshire sets up as a trader on a South Sea island, he runs afoul of Case who has been monopolizing trade by manipulating the natives to do in his rivals--he has convinced them he has magic powers. Wiltshire's marriage to a native woman, suggested by Case, nearly brings him disaster in turn.

First published in the Illustrated London News, July-August 1892.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1893 Island Nights' Entertainments Charles Scribner's Sons Collection
1893 Island Nights' Entertainments Cassell & Company Collection
August 1950 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories Coward-McCann Collection |15
1951 The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books Collection
1951 Cover Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books Collection
1951 Cover Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books Collection
1951 Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books Collection
1954 Cover The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books Collection
1961 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Famous Tales Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection 190
1961 Cover The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Washington Square Press Collection 222
1963 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories G. P. Putnam's Sons Collection
1964 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Suicide Club Arco Publishing Omnibus
1965 Cover Great Tales of Mystery and Adventure Platt & Munk Collection 329
1968 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Island Night's Entertainments / The Merry Men and Other Stories Heron Books Omnibus
June 1969 The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels Doubleday Omnibus 575
June 1970 Island Nights' Entertainment Scholarly Press Collection
March 1979 Cover The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Penguin Books Collection
December 1979 Cover The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Famous Tales Dodd, Mead & Co. Collection |7
April 1986 Cover Island Nights' Entertainments University of Hawai'i Press Collection
August 1991 The Collected Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Collection 595
September 1991 Cover The Complete Shorter Fiction Carroll & Graf Collection 595
December 1993 Cover The Complete Shorter Fiction Carroll & Graf Collection 595
March 1994 The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition Henry Holt Collection 2:307|2307
March 1994 The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition Henry Holt Collection 2:307|2307
September 1995 Island Nights' Entertainment Project Gutenberg Collection
1998 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels Da Capo Press Omnibus 575
December 2012 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Including Two Novellas 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' and 'The Beach of Falesa', One Novelette 'Olalla' and Ten Short Stories of the Macabre and Unusual Leonaur Ltd Collection
December 2012 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Including Two Novellas 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' and 'The Beach of Falesa', One Novelette 'Olalla' and Ten Short Stories of the Macabre and Unusual Leonaur Ltd Collection
June 2014 Cover Island Nights' Entertainments Routledge Collection
August 2023 Cover Robert Louis Stevenson Collection Flame Tree Press Omnibus 210