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Will o' the Mill

Robert Louis Stevenson

First published 1887
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

The life, with its joys and disappointments, of Will the miller and innkeeper, who wanted to travel as a child but never did.

Notes

Although most of this story is mundane, Death makes an in-person appearance at the end.

Publications (35)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1887 Cover The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables Chatto & Windus Collection
1895 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus 69
1909 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables Current Literature Pub. Co Omnibus
1911 Cover The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus |3
1923 The Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Scribner's Sons Collection |4
1924 Cover Will o' the Mill and Markheim Haldeman-Julius Collection
1925 Cover Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton Omnibus
1927 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Charles Scribner's Sons Omnibus
1928 The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Gollancz Collection 793
1932 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Merry Men & Other Tales E. P. Dutton Omnibus |4
June 1932 The Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson Gollancz Collection 793
1936 Markheim and Will o' the Mill Kenyûsha Collection
1937 Cover Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries: (Third Series) Oxford University Press Anthology 369
August 1950 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories Coward-McCann Collection |5
1962 Cover Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Digit Books Collection
1963 Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories G. P. Putnam's Sons Collection
1968 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Merry Men and Other Tales J. M. Dent Omnibus
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 255
June 1973 Will o' the Mill Wake-Brook House Chapbook
June 1991 Will O' the Mill and Markheim Gordon Press Publishers Collection
August 1991 The Collected Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Collection 49
September 1991 Cover The Complete Shorter Fiction Carroll & Graf Collection 49
December 1993 Cover The Complete Shorter Fiction Carroll & Graf Collection 49
March 1994 The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition Henry Holt Collection 1:117|117
March 1994 The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition Henry Holt Collection 1:117|117
October 1995 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables 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 255
March 1998 Cover Tales of Adventure Canongate Books Collection 9
August 2003 Merry Men IndyPublish.com Collection
2004 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : and other stories Planet Three Collection |3
December 2004 Cover The Suicide Club & Other Dark Adventures Tartarus Press Collection 29
April 2005 Cover The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Kessinger Omnibus 77
November 2011 Cover The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Terrifying Tales Fall River Press Collection 84
August 2023 Cover Robert Louis Stevenson Collection Flame Tree Press Omnibus 194