The narrator of a five-part novella by this author disrupts a sermon and loses all business due to a cursed marriage arranged by a rival copra trader. The protagonist of a story by this author inherits land for his “Bright House” after an object originally owned by Prester John returns to his chest. This author’s journalistic Footnote to History reports “eight years of trouble” in a country where he was nicknamed “Tusitala” (“too-see-TAH-lah”), where he wrote “The Beach of Falesá” while recovering from lung hemorrhages. This friend of King Kalākaua, who sailed on the Equator, wrote of Keawe’s quest to sell an infernal wish-granting vessel at a loss in one of his Island Nights’ Entertainments. This author of “The Bottle Imp” left an epitaph in Sāmoa that inspired Philip Larkin’s poem “This Be The Verse.” For 10 points, what Scottish expatriate wrote Kidnapped? ■END■
ANSWER: Robert Louis Stevenson [or Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; accept Tusitala until read]
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