Island Nights' Entertainments

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson

Genre(s): Literary Fiction

Narrators: Tony Addison

Number of Chapters: 8

Length: 05 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the lives of the natives. One tale carries the germ of the story of Madame Butterfly, since become a part of Western culture. Another is an extraordinary retelling of a German horror story transposed to a South Sea Island setting. The last is an effort of the pure Stevensonian imagination and there can be nothing better. - Summary by TONY ADDISON