Robert Louis Stevenson, A Lodging for the Night

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 6:43 p.m.

The life of the rogue poet Fran\xe7ois Villon (1431-1463?) inspired this short story. Robert Louis Stevenson tells of adventures on a bleak and snowy night in Paris and goes on, in a witty but earnest dialogue, to talk of honor, social status, and the human instinct to survive.