Just confirming: the correct name is "The bottle imp".
Just confirming: the correct name is "The bottle imp".
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Tell us about it when you can.Originally Posted by bounty
laughs---I was hoping you would wanna look it up!
the story goes it more or less came to him in a dream while he was in his sick bed. he apparently castigated someone for waking him up in the middle of a "thrilling episode." he set to writing and wrote the story in three days, but his wife read it, and said he has been so intent on writing a thriller, he missed the mark when it came to the underlying moral or allegory. Stevenson then burnt his original transcript and wrote his second draft in the subsequent three days.
Thank you for posting it. You made me remember that I had read about it already. I think it was in 'Robert Louis Stevenson Treasury' by Alanna Knight.
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