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The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond on "New Arabian Nights"
Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Language	English
Series	Later-day Arabian Nights
Genre	Detective fiction short story
Publisher	London Magazine
Publication date	June–October 1878
Publication place	Scotland
Media type	Print (Periodical)
Preceded by	The Suicide Club

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.

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

Publication history

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1878). The Rajah's Diamond (June–October ed.). UK: London Magazine.
Stevenson, Robert Louis (September 1991). The Rajah's Diamond (Hardcover ed.). USA: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-88184-741-0.

References

"The Rajah's Diamond". Radio Times. 24 November 1979.

External links

[REDACTED] Works related to The New Arabian Nights at Wikisource

The New Arabian Nights at Project Gutenberg
The New Arabian Nights scanned at Archive.org.

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Books	An Inland Voyage (1878) Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) The Silverado Squatters (1883) Memories and Portraits (1887) Across the Plains (1892) Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
Novels	Treasure Island (1883) Prince Otto (1885) Kidnapped (1886) The Black Arrow (1888) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) The Wrong Box (1889, with stepson) The Wrecker (1892, with stepson) Catriona (1893) The Ebb-Tide (1894, with stepson) Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished) St. Ives (1897, unfinished)
Short story collections	The Suicide Club (1878) The Rajah's Diamond (1878) New Arabian Nights (1882) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) Tales and Fantasies (1905)
Short stories	"The Pavilion on the Links" (1880) "Thrawn Janet" (1881) "The Merry Men" (1882) "The Body Snatcher" (1884) "Markheim" (1885) "Olalla" (1885) "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) "The Bottle Imp" (1891) "The Beach of Falesá" (1892) "The Isle of Voices" (1893)
Poetry	A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) Underwoods (1887) Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Related	Lloyd Osbourne Fanny Stevenson Isobel Osbourne The Student, newspaper Mount Vaea Writers' Museum Robert Louis Stevenson State Park Stevenson Memorial (1903 painting) The Story of a Recluse (unfinished)
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