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The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Short Stories IThe Pavilion on the Links and Other Early Stories

Edited by Burkhard Niederhoff

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Published 31 October 2026

About this book

The first fully edited scholarly edition of stories written by Stevenson at an early stage in his career as a fiction writer

  • Offers critically edited texts with a textual essay and list of emendations
  • Includes exhaustive explanatory notes
  • Includes a transcription of manuscript notes by Stevenson’s literary mentors

This book contains six early stories, including ‘The Pavilion on the Links’, praised as a masterpiece by Arthur Conan Doyle, and ‘A Lodging for the Night’, which came out at the top of the list when The New York Times asked twenty-four writers to name the best short story in English in 1914. The edition presents critical texts of the stories, a list of emendations and a textual essay; ‘The Pavilion on the Links’ appears in both the book version and the magazine version, which differ considerably. The edition also includes an introduction focusing on the genesis and the reception of the stories, exhaustive explanatory annotation and several appendices, including a transcription of the handwritten notes made by Stevenson’s literary mentors on the manuscript of the early story ‘When the Devil Was Well’.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface by the General Editors
List of Abbreviations
Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
Introduction
The Publication of the Second Volume of New Arabian Nights
Stevenson’s Early Stories and His Anti-Realism
The Coherence of the NAN2 Collection
Early Reception

THE PAVILION ON THE LINKS AND OTHER EARLY STORIES
The Pavilion on the Links
A Lodging for the Night
The Sire de Malétroit’s Door
Providence and the Guitar
An Old Song
When the Devil Was Well

Appendices
1. The Cornhill Version of ‘The Pavilion on the Links’
2. The Pencil Annotations of ‘When the Devil Was Well’
3. Facsimile of a Manuscript Note

Essay on the Text
The Stories Collected in New Arabian Nights
A Special Case: ‘The Pavilion on the Links’
‘An Old Song’ and ‘When the Devil Was Well’
The Present Text
Sequence

Emendation List
End-of-Line Hyphens
Explanatory Notes

About the contributors

R. L. Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Burkhard Niederhoff

Burkhard Niederhoff is Professor of English Literature at Ruhr University Bochum.

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