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A Hawaiian sailor named Keawe, visiting San Francisco, is invited into a fine house by a sad-looking old man who shows him a small, dull bottle with something moving inside it. The imp in the bottle grants any wish its owner asks. The price is simple and terrible: the owner’s soul is forfeit if he dies still holding it, and the bottle can only be sold on for less than it was bought for.
Keawe buys it, gets his beautiful house, and sells it on in relief. Then he meets the woman he wants to marry, and a sickness that only the imp can cure, and he must go looking for the bottle again. By then its price has fallen to a few coins, and the number of coins smaller than that is running out.
First published in 1891, The Bottle Imp is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most perfect tales: a South Seas fable of wishes, love and damnation, built on a mathematical trap of extraordinary elegance.
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