The Beach of Falesá

The Beach of Falesá, long story by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published as “Uma” in 1892 in Illustrated London News and collected in Island Nights’ Entertainments (1893). An adventure romance fused with realism, it depicts a man’s struggle to maintain his decency in the face of uncivilized hostility. John Wiltshire, the story’s narrator and protagonist, is a white trader on the island of Falesá in the South Seas. He is befriended by Case, a fellow...