Island Nights' Entertainments is a set of three of Stevenson's most distinctive and compelling short stories, written out of his own experience living in the South Seas. The Misadventures of John Nicholson is a late contribution to the mid-nineteenth-century Christmas book genre.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
