More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter


Read by Don W. Jenkins

(4.4 stars; 20 reviews)

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three gentlemen of little means and no occupation meet in the Bohemian Cigar Divan, a tobacco shop with couches to sit and smoke. They read of a reward offered for information as to the whereabouts of a man with big moustaches and a sealskin coat. They agree among themselves that they will separate and search for the man so as to claim the reward. The stories that follow concern their adventures. They meet again in the cigar divan in an epilogue to their travels. (Summary by Don W. Jenkins) (7 hr 25 min)

Chapters

01 - Prologue of the Cigar Divan 20:19 Read by Don W. Jenkins
02 - Challoner's Adventure: The Squire of Dames 19:06 Read by Don W. Jenkins
03 - Story of the Destroying Angel 1:07:22 Read by Don W. Jenkins
04 - The Squire of Dames (concluded) 32:07 Read by Don W. Jenkins
05 - Somerset's Adventure: The Superfluous Mansion 11:25 Read by Don W. Jenkins
06 - Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady 54:51 Read by Don W. Jenkins
07 - The Superfluous Mansion (continued) 55:19 Read by Don W. Jenkins
08 - Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb 19:20 Read by Don W. Jenkins
09 - The Superfluous Mansion (continued) 20:02 Read by Don W. Jenkins
10 - Desborough's Adventure: The Brown Box 13:49 Read by Don W. Jenkins
11 - Story of the Fair Cuban 1:09:59 Read by Don W. Jenkins
12 - The Brown Box (concluded) 24:19 Read by Don W. Jenkins
13 - The Superfluous Mansion (concluded) 18:35 Read by Don W. Jenkins
14 - Epilogue of the Cigar Divan 18:48 Read by Don W. Jenkins

Reviews

KEYSTONE KOPS AMONG ARISTOCRACY


(4 stars)

A zany tale (or tales?) with multitudinoud detours. It is almost as if the authors often asked outsiders to select the direction of the next adventure. Jenkins gives it the proper farcical interpretation.