Friday, November 14, 2014

Can someone explain Stevenson's Prince Otto?

I remember reading, thirty years ago, a book by Stevenson, titled "Prince Otto", which was 5/8 completed at his death and published posthumously with a penciled-in last part by an English faculty man. I called it 5/8 of a masterpiece, and have referred to It from time to time since.
Since I happened to have a complete Stevenson anthology on my Kindle, I thought I'd re-read it, and am perplexed to find the work by that name an entlrely different book, not posthumous, with one chapter rewritten by RLS' s wife.
Can anyone explain the confusion?

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