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Title: The Beach of Falesá Title Record # 175262
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Date: 1892-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: novella
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: First published in the Illustrated London News, July-August 1892.
Synopsis: 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.
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Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1892First opublished in The Illustrated London News Jul-Aug, 1892, according to locus1.
The Beach at Falesá
Year Language Title
1987Translated by María Eugenia Santidrián
Spanish La playa de Falesá
2000Translated by José Luis López-Muñoz.
Spanish La playa de Falesá

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Island Nights' Entertainments 1893-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Scribner's Sons     ix+
220+
[26]
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Island Nights' Entertainments 1893-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Cassell & Company     x+
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories 1950-08-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Coward-McCann (Macdonald Illustrated Classics #17) 17   xxiii+
525
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1951-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books C-48
$0.35?$: US dollar
370
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1951-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books C-48
C$0.35?C$: Canadian dollar
370
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1951-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books PL-14
$0.35?$: US dollar
370
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1951-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books (Collector's Edition (Pocket) #40)     370
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1954-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Pocket Books (The Pocket Library) PL14
$0.35?$: US dollar
370
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson 1961-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Washington Square Press W214
$0.45?$: US dollar
370
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Famous Tales 1961-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Dodd, Mead & Co. (Great Illustrated Classics)  
$10.95?$: US dollar
viii+
339
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories 1963-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson G. P. Putnam's Sons     504
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Suicide Club 1964-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Arco Publishing     191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Great Tales of Mystery and Adventure 1965-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Platt & Munk (Platt & Munk Great Writers Collection)  
$2.95?$: US dollar
528
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll W. K. Plummer  
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Island Night's Entertainments / The Merry Men and Other Stories 1968-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Heron Books (The Literary Heritage Collection)     475
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni  
The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels 1969-06-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Doubleday 0-385-07875-7
$10.00?$: US dollar
xxx+
678
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
Island Nights' Entertainment 1970-06-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Scholarly Press 0-403-00728-3
$79.00?$: US dollar
277
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories 1979-03-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Penguin Books 0-14-043117-9
£0.95?£: UK pound
303
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Famous Tales 1979-12-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Dodd, Mead & Co. (Great Illustrated Classics) 0-396-07758-7
$10.95?$: US dollar
339
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Island Nights' Entertainments 1986-04-01 Robert Louis Stevenson University of Hawai'i Press (Pacific Classics #6) 0-8248-0286-1
$4.95?$: US dollar
277
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Body Snatcher and Other Stories 1988-02-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Signet Classic / New American Library 0-451-52153-6
$3.50?$: US dollar
350
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
The Collected Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson 1991-08-26 Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson 1-85487-076-9
£19.95?£: UK pound
xiv+
664
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Shorter Fiction 1991-09-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Carroll & Graf 0-88184-741-0
$28.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
664
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll J. A. Grimshaw  
The Complete Shorter Fiction 1993-12-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Carroll & Graf 0-7867-0022-X
$14.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
664
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll J. A. Grimshaw  
The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition 1994-03-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Holt 0-8050-3204-5
$50.00?$: US dollar
 
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition 1994-03-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Holt 0-8050-3203-7
$50.00?$: US dollar
 
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Island Nights' Entertainment 1995-09-01 Robert Louis Stevenson Project Gutenberg 329
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Checkmark
The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels 1998-00-00 Robert Louis Stevenson Da Capo Press 0-306-80882-X
$19.95?$: US dollar
xxx+
678
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni  
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 2012-12-08 Robert Louis Stevenson Leonaur Ltd 978-1-78282-004-8
£19.99?£: UK pound
356
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
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 2012-12-08 Robert Louis Stevenson Leonaur Ltd 978-1-78282-005-5
£11.99?£: UK pound
356
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll  
Island Nights' Entertainments 2014-06-03 Robert Louis Stevenson Routledge 978-1-317-84636-9
$225.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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