About the book: 1994 / The first two stories in the collection "New Arabian Nights" introduce the reader to the adventures of modern Harun al-Rashid, the fantastic Prince of Bohemia. It is enough to read the adventures of the Prince of Bohemia to notice the ironic element that gives Stevenson's style such power. Prince Florizel, a romantic, a passionate lover of adventure and at the same time a complacent bourgeois, is always on the border of the great and the ridiculous, until the author finally decides to complete the fate of his hero with a comic epilogue: the former Prince of Bohemia peacefully lives out his days behind the counter of a tobacco store. Thus, both "The Suicide Club" and "The Rajah's Diamond" can be classified more as humor than as chilling stories in the style of Poe.