7 best short stories by Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stocktonavoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time. Instead, he humorously poked fun at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way.

Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

- The Bee-Man Of Orn.

- The Griffin And The Minor Canon.

- Old Pipes And The Dryad.

- The Queen's Museum.

- Prince Hassak's March.

- The Battle Of The Third Cousins.

- The Banished King.

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7 best short stories by Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stocktonavoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time. Instead, he humorously poked fun at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way.

Join us in these seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:

- The Bee-Man Of Orn.

- The Griffin And The Minor Canon.

- Old Pipes And The Dryad.

- The Queen's Museum.

- Prince Hassak's March.

- The Battle Of The Third Cousins.

- The Banished King.

  1. Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 3

    H. and Heron, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Amelia B. Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Edward Bellamy, Arnold Bennett, S. Baring-Gould, Daniil Kharms, E F Benson, Ella D'Arcy, Jacques Futrelle, Frank Richard Stockton, John Kendrick Bangs, Kenneth Grahame, Julian Hawthorne, A. E. Mason, Richard Middleton, Pierre Louÿs, Sir Hugh Walpole, Ethel Richardson, Gertrude Stein, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mór Jókai, Andy Adams, Bertha Sinclair, Fitz-James O’Brien, Eleanor H. Porter, Valery Bryusov, John Ulrich Giesy, Otis Adelbert Kline, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Barry Pain, Gertrude Bennett, Francis Marion Crawford, William Pett Ridge, Gilbert Parker, Harriet Elizabeth Spofford, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Richard Austin Freeman, Alice Duer Miller, Leonard Merrick, Anthony Hope, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anne O'Hagan Shinn, B.M. Bower, August Nemo

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  2. What Might Have Been Expected : Whimsical Tales of Unexpected Endings and Twists

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  3. Captain Chap; or, The Rolling Stones : Adventurous Tales on the High Seas

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  4. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  5. The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  6. Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences : With Other Stories

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  7. The Stories of the Three Burglars

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  8. The Lady, or the Tiger?

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  9. The Girl at Cobhurst

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  10. The Dusantes : A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine"

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  11. Ting-a-ling

    Frank Richard Stockton

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  12. Pomona's Travels : A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden

    Frank Richard Stockton

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