The Rajah's Diamond

{{Short description|1878 short story cycle by Robert Louis Stevenson}}

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|name = The Rajah's Diamond

|image = The Rajah's Diamond Cover.png

|caption = The Rajah's Diamond on "New Arabian Nights"

|author = Robert Louis Stevenson

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|country = Scotland

|language = English

|series = Later-day Arabian Nights

|genre = Detective fiction short story

|publisher = London Magazine

|pub_date = June–October 1878

|media_type = Print (Periodical)

|preceded_by = The Suicide Club

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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.

On the 24 November 1979 BBC Wales broadcast an operatic adaptation for television of The Rajah's Diamond (1979) by Alun Hoddinott, starring Geraint Evans and featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c17c0d4bf95440bfac3d083819592151|title=The Rajah's Diamond|work=Radio Times|issue=2924|date=24 November 1979}}

A Soviet adaptation titled The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person was released in 1981.

Publication history

{{cite book|title=The Rajah's Diamond|author=Stevenson, Robert Louis|date=1878|location=UK|publisher=London Magazine|edition= June–October}}
{{cite book|title=The Rajah's Diamond|author=Stevenson, Robert Louis|date=September 1991|location=USA|publisher=Carroll & Graf|isbn=0-88184-741-0|edition=Hardcover|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780881847413}}

References

External links

[https://archive.org/details/newarabiannights00stevuoft The New Arabian Nights] scanned at Archive.org.

Rajah's Diamond, The

Category:Short story collections by Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:Works originally published in The London Magazine