The Bottle Imp (Annotated)

The Bottle Imp is a compact yet richly suggestive fable in which Robert Louis Stevenson transforms a supernatural bargain into a searching meditation on desire, mortality, and moral cost. Set largely in the South Pacific, the tale follows Keawe, a Hawaiian man who purchases a magical bottle containing an imp able to grant every wish—provided it is sold before its owner's death for less than its pu...