The Adventures of Three Gentlemen. New Tales of the Thousand and One Nights

Robert Louis Stevenson — a famous English writer, author of works such as «Treasure Island», «Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde» and many others, — entered the history of literature as a subtle stylist and master of psychological portrait. His tales of the adventures of Prince Florizel of Bohemia were very popular. In 1878, stories about the «Suicide Club» and the «Rajah's Diamond» were published, created in the ornate style of eastern tales, and seven years later a peculiar continuation appeared — «The Very New Tales of the „Thousand and One Nights“», created by Stevenson in collaboration with his wife, Fanny Stevenson, and received enthusiastic reviews from readers. The book tells the story of three idle gentlemen who decided to embark on an incredible adventure that very night and shape their destiny in the mysterious London, this «Baghdad of the West, the city of unexpected encounters». And fate meets them: soon each of them finds themselves embroiled in inexplicable, but deadly dangerous intrigues… The texts are printed in a new, brilliant translation by Vera Nikolaevna Akhtyrskaya.