Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist and poet. He is popular for Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses and Kidnapped .
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables published in 1887, is a collection of short stories by Stevenson.
It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid.The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood and his merry men. Writing of these stories was influenced by his disagreement with his family’s religious background , the concept of hypocrisy, and the errors caused because of mistaken identity. The stories have common themes of seafaring action: treasure hunters, sunken galleons, shipwrecks in wild weather, and diving expeditions.
Image - The merry men, and other tales and fables by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1905, Chatto & Windus edition
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