A review by whats_margaret_reading
The Beach of Falesa by Robert Louis Stevenson

4.0

Adventure story purveyor turns to colonialism, miscegenation, and madness? Kind of awesome. The people in charge of the Art of the Novella series, as has been more throughly and insightfully criticized elsewhere, tend towards the obvious authors (Stevenson, H.G. Wells, basically authors who are famous and the public domain which limits the diversity somewhat) but some of the lesser known works of those same authors are absolutely fascinating. Instead of just some Treasure Island adventure writer, Stevenson demonstrates a darker and more sinister streak in this novella.