A Great Book

Just confirming: the correct name is "The bottle imp".

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Originally Posted by bounty

youre welcome carmilla---I left you in suspense though about how the story came into existence!

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Tell us about it when you can. ;)

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.

Quote:

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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.

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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. :)