Collected Works of Frank R. Stockton (Illustrated)

by Frank R. Stockton

Overview

"Collected Works of Frank R. Stockton" contains:

• An aesthetic cover page.
• A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles.
• Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters.
• Nicely organized chapters and text.
• Original illustrations

Works of the author included in this collection:

• A BICYCLE OF CATHAY
• A CHOSEN FEW
• A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP
• BUCCANEERS AND PIRATES OF OUR COASTS
• KATE BONNET
• MRS. CLIFF'S YACHT
• MY TERMINAL MORAINE
• POMONA'S TRAVELS
• ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES IN LANDS OF FACT AND FANCY
• RUDDER GRANGE
• STORIES OF NEW JERSEY
• THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN HORN
• THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS
• THE CAPTAIN'S TOLL-GATE
• THE CASTING AWAY OF MRS. LECKS AND MRS. ALESHINE
• THE GREAT WAR SYNDICATE
• THE HOUSE OF MARTHA
• THE MAGIC EGG AND OTHER STORIES
• THE SQUIRREL INN

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150791893
Publisher:	Minerva Classics
Publication date:	07/04/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 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 the 19th century.

Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career. After he married Mary Ann Edwards Tuttle, the couple moved to Nutley, New Jersey.

For years he supported himself as a wood engraver until his father's death in 1860; in 1867, he moved back to Philadelphia to write for a newspaper founded by his brother. His first fairy tale, "Ting-a-ling," was published that year in The Riverside Magazine; his first book collection appeared in 1870. He was also an editor for Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s.
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 fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which were published in 1963 and 1964, respectively, in editions illustrated by Maurice Sendak. "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963.

Source: Wikipedia