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Frank Richard Stockton
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Frank R. Stockton’s Lady or the Tiger, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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Frank R Stockton
Part Fifteen of Twenty-three. Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.
Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children’s fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of…
Frank R. Stockton
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and…
Short excerpt: The pretty little theatre attached to the building of the Unicorn Club had been hired for a certain January afternoon by Mr. Herbert Loring who wished to give…
Part One of Twenty-three. Thonias Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote fantastic tales for children under the pen name Frank R. Stockton. He also wrote books for adults. Among his amusing books…
When Miss Roberta returned to the house she found Junius Keswick sitting on a bench on the porch. She went over to him, and took a seat at the other…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1899 Edition.
There was a wide entrance-gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors. Hewlings Stockton, clergyman, wrote tales for children…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Detailed accounts of the affair came rapidly, but there was nothing in them to quiet the national indignation; the American flag had been hauled down by Englishmen, an American naval…
She never went to church and when questioned upon this subject, had been known to answer that she could not listen with patience to a sermon, for she had never…
This was Roland Clewe, who had been studying and experimenting for the past year in the scientific schools and workshops of Germany. It was towards his own laboratory and his…
What Might Have Been Expected from Frank R. Stockton. American writer and humorist (1834-1902).
Also included in this volume are ‘His Wife’s Deceased Sister, ’ The Widow’s Cruise, Captain Eli’s Best Ear, Love Before Breakfast, The Staying Power of Sir Rohan, A Piece of…
Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children’s stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his…
A classic tale of buccanneers and piracy on the open seas by the author of such classics as The Lady and the Tiger and The Bee-Man of Orn.
The Shelf2Life Children’s Literature and Fiction Collection is a charming set of pre-1923 nursery rhymes, fairy tales, classic novels and short stories for children and young adults. From a tardy…
