The Adventures of Prince Florizel

 



Robert Louis Stevenson is an English writer, a classic of neo-romanticism and an author of adventure novels, who entered the history of literature as a subtle stylist and master of psychological portrait. "Treasure Island", "The Black Arrow", "The Strange Case... of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and many, many other works that came from Stevenson's pen hold a firm place among the masterpieces of world literature. This edition includes two cycles of stories united by the eccentric figure of Prince Florizel of Bohemia: "The Suicide Club" and "The Rajah's Diamond", as well as selected tales. The reader can expect conspiracies, duels, kidnappings, murders, sensational revelations, and other adventurous events, colored by the cheerful and wise authorial irony.