The Rajah's Diamond

The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond on "New Arabian Nights"
Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Series	Later-day Arabian Nights
Genre	Detective fiction short story
Publisher	London Magazine
Publication date	June–October 1878
Media type	Print (Periodical)
Preceded by	The Suicide Club

The Rajah's Diamond is a cycle of four short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1878, in a serial periodical, London Magazine, they were republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights. The stories are:

"Story of the Bandbox"
"Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders"
"Story of the House with the Green Blinds"
"The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective"

Adaptations

Dramafilms released a movie entitled The Tame Cat (1921), based on these stories, directed by Will H. Bradley and starring Marion Harding and Ray Irwin.^[1]

BBC Wales broadcast an operatic adaptation of The Rajah's Diamond (1979) by Alun Hoddinott, starring Geraint Evans and featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.^[2]

Publication history

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1878). The Rajah's Diamond (June–October ed.). UK: London Magazine.
Stevenson, Robert Louis (September 1991). The Rajah's Diamond (Hardcover ed.). USA: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-88184-741-0.

References

↑ "IMDB.com". Retrieved July 20, 2007.
↑ "BFI". Retrieved July 20, 2007.

External links

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

The New Arabian Nights

The Rajah's Diamond at Project Gutenberg
The New Arabian Nights scanned at Archive.org.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books	An Inland Voyage (1878) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) The Silverado Squatters (1883) Memories and Portraits (1887) Across the Plains (1892) Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) The Amateur Emigrant (1895)

Novels	Treasure Island (1883) Prince Otto (1885) Kidnapped (1886) The Black Arrow (1888) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) The Wrong Box (1889) The Wrecker (1892) Catriona (1893) The Ebb-Tide (1894) Weir of Hermiston (1896) St. Ives (1897)

Short story collections	The Suicide Club (1878) The Rajah's Diamond (1878) New Arabian Nights (1882) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) Tales and Fantasies (1905)

Short stories	"The Pavilion on the Links" (1880) "The Merry Men" (1882) "The Body Snatcher" (1884) "Markheim" (1885) "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) "The Bottle Imp" (1891) "The Beach of Falesá" (1892) "The Isle of Voices" (1893)

Poetry	A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) Underwoods (1887) Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

Related articles	Lloyd Osbourne Fanny Stevenson Mount Vaea Robert Louis Stevenson State Park The Story of a Recluse (unfinished)

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