The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers: “A passing thirst, which I dare say many have shared, for adventures of the fascinating kind described in the New Arabian Nights led me on a few evenings into some shady haunts in Soho and farther eastward; but was finally quenched one sultry Saturday night after an hour's immersion in the reeking…”
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: ““The Gentleman from Indiana,” “The New Arabian Nights””
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Stevenson essay: the collection containing 'The Pavilion on the Links'”
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham: “He went to the free library, and looked at the papers till they wearied him, then he took out Stevenson's New Arabian Nights;”
To the Spring Equinox and Beyond by Natsume Sōseki: “This leaning in Keitaro seemed to have begun in his high-school days, when his English teacher had the class read Stevenson's New Arabian Nights as a textbook. Until then he had hated English, but once he started on this book he never skipped the preparation. [auto-translated]”