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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1886Notes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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1900. 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: The Lady or the Tiger? The Discourager of Hesitancy; The Transferred Ghost; The Spectral Mortgage; Every Man His Own Letter-Writer; That Same Old Coon; Our Story; Derelict; On the Training of Parents; A Borrowed Month; The Baker of Barnbury; and The Watchmaker's Wife. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1900. 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: A Tale of Negative Gravity; Asaph; The Remarkable Wreck of the Thomas Hyke; An Unhistoric Page; The Cloverfields Carriage; A Story of Assisted Fate; My Bull Calf; As One Woman to Another; Our Fire Screen; My terminal Moraine; Plain Fishing. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1899. 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. The book begins: There was a wide entrance-gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horses and two mules, came between its tall chestnut posts, and was taken by a roundabout way among the trees to a spot at the back of the house, where the chips of several generations of sturdy wood-chopper had formed a ligneous soil deeper than the arable surface of any portion of the nine hundred and fifty acres which formed the farm of Midbranch. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1900. 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: The Magic Egg; 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 Red Calico; The Christmas Wreck; My Well and What Came Out of It; Mr. Tolman; My Unwilling Neighbor; and Our Archery Club. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1900. Part Eleven 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. The Great Stone of Sardis begins: It was about noon of a day in early summer that a westward-bound Atlantic liner was rapidly nearing the port of New York. Not long before, the old lighthouse on Montauk Point had been sighted, and the company on board the vessel were animated by the knowledge that in a few hours they would be at the end of their voyage. Also contains The Water Devil, a Marine Tale. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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1900. 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. Contents: The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Bee-Man of Orn; The Queen's Museum; The Clocks of Rondaine; Christmas Before Last; or, the Fruit of the Fragile Palm; Prince Hassak's March; The Battle of the Third Cousins; The Banished King; The Philopena; Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences; The Christmas Shadrach; The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby; and The Philosophy of Relative Existences. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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"The Lady or the Tiger?" is a famous short story written by Frank R. Stockton in 1882. Stockton later wrote a continuation of this story, "The Discourager of Hesitancy". "The Lady or the Tiger?" has come into the English language as an allegoricalexpression meaning an unsolvable problem. -- from Wikipedia ... Read more

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Love, Death and a choice. As simple as great.
Is it as simple as a princess in love being able to save the life of her beloved? You read it once and it sounds as a tale for kids. You read it twice and you can understand there's a circle that never ends. The lady orthe tiger? or What would you choose when the choice is love or death?

Love, Death and a choice. As simple as great
Is it as simple as a princess in love being able to save her beloved's life? You read it once and it sounds as a tale for kids. You read it twice and you can understand there's a circle that never ends. The lady or thetiger? or What would you choose when the choice is love or death?

It was a good story.
"In my idea the doors at the end of the story represent the struggle for someone in love and thetravisty it causes."

Asuspensful book with a questionable ending
I would loved this story, except that it doesn't give you and ending to the suspense, the story however is well written and descriptive ... Read more

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1900. Part Thirteen 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 for children Rudder Grange is the best known. The Lady and the Tiger, Adventures of Captain Horne, Mrs. Null, The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, The Hundredth Man, Great Stone of Sardis, and Captain's Tollgate were also quite popular. The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander chronicles the adventures of a middle-aged immortal who drank from the fountain of immortality when he was fifty-three. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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An excerpt:

I am a householder in a pleasant country neighbourhood, about twenty miles from New York. My family consists of myself and wife, our boy, George William, aged two, two maid-servants, and a man; but in the summer we have frequent visitors, and at the time of which I am about to write my Aunt Martha was staying with us.

My house is large and pleasant, and we have neighbours near enough for social purposes and yet not too near or too many to detract from the rural aspect of our surroundings. But we do not live in a paradise; we are occasionally troubled by mosquitoes and burglars.

Against the first of these annoyances we have always been able to guard ourselves, at least in a measure, and our man and the cook declare that they have become so used to them that they do not mind them; but to guard against burglars is much more difficult, and to become used to them would, I think, require a great deal of practice. ... Read more

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The first of Frank Stockton's original fairytales re-illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

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The Griffin and the Minor Canon
This is a lovely children's story with enough detail to delight a seven or eight year old, but enough 'color' in the story for even a two year old as well.The illustrations area delight.

The Griffin and the Minor Canon
A truly wonderful book. I was given this book by my next door neighbour who was a childrens' book reviewer, and I have loved it ever since. I now read it with my six year old son.

The illustrations by Maurice Sendak, which are much finer, more detailed and more intricate than his illustrations in 'Where the Wild Things Are' and 'The Night kitchen', are beautiful and complement the text wonderfully.

Frank Stockton's prose is lovely to read, easily understood by even younger readers but still provides a salient message about tolerance, acceptance of others and sacrifice for our friends and the community.

I cannot recommend it highly enough. It should be on all school reading lists.

Don't judge a half-eagle/half-lion monstrosity by its feathers.
Frank Stockton's "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" is much like the creature in the title.In mythology, griffins can be savage yet kind, untamed but dignified, noble and scheming, all at the same time.

On the surface, the story is a quiet read-aloud tale about the last griffin wishing to see a stone likeness of himself over the doors of an old church.Like the protagonist in Kenneth Grahame's "The Reluctant Dragon," the Griffin is judged solely by his fearsome appearance and humanity's ignorance of a griffin's true nature.The cowardly citizens of the town where the church is located send their young Minor Canon to face the Griffin and find out what he wants.When the Minor Canon assures the populace that the Griffin wishes to see the stone griffin, they turn on him.Even after he leaves the town in an effort to lure the Griffin away, the Griffin's own acts of kindness as a school teacher and a doctor aren't enough to convince the citizens that they have nothing to fear from him.

For older readers, "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" is a brilliant, timeless commentary on society and its faults.Prickly barbs and tart Yankee satire keep poking through what appears to be an old European tale.Mob rule and prejudice displace reason and truth.The Minor Canon can't please the townsfolk, no matter how hard he tries and the Griffin is never appreciated for his efforts.

Maurice Sendak's illustrations are closer in spirit to illuminations found in old manuscripts.They are never intrusive, nor do they demand more attention than the text.The pictures keep pace with the tempo of the story, from gentle and lilting to devastatingly witty.Stockton and Sendak are a duet, perfectly matched though separated in years by the better part of a century.

Children who hear "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" now will cherish it all the more when they're old enough to savor the tangy treat Stockton has hidden inside.Don't let your children miss it.

the griffin and the minor cannon
loved this book as a child - and as an adult - the pictures (black & white sketches) are marvelous and remained with me for years.

A kind and magical creature brings life to an old town.
Beautifully written tale of the last griffin who visits a town where his image-a statue- has been part of the old church for hundreds of years.Theonly person with enough courage to speak with the terrifying Griffin is theMinor Canon.The townsfolk are sure that the Griffin will eat theirchildren.Their selfishness and small-mindedness leads them to a life theycouldn't have imagined.A great fantasy in a very realistic world! ... Read more

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A futuristic tale about steamship warfare in the late 19th century, between Great Britain and the U.S., which is waged on the part of the U.S. by a private syndicate of industrialists, who use motorized bombs and other special devices heretofore unknown in warfare, including fighting submerged craft called Crabs.

Originally published in 1889, this is one of the very early adaptations of an imaginary war to science fiction. The war over fishing rights in the Atlantic Ocean, is given to a syndicate -a giant cartel of capitalists and industrialists- to fight. The Americans win and an Anglo-American Syndicate established as part of the peace treaty.

The syndicate has super weapons, including a matter annihilating explosive! The Syndicate by destructive examples arranged for observers from both sides shows that future wars are futile, when the Syndicate holds the cards. The Syndicate operates for peace, not world control.

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American popular novelist and short-story writer of mainly humorous fiction, best known as the author of the title story of a collection called "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1884). ... Read more

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THIS 54 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Stories Of Frank R. Stockton V3, by Frank R. Stockton. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417925159. ... Read more

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Read of the exciting escapades of famous pirates like Bartholemy Portuguez, Roc the Brazilian, Morgan, Kidd, Blackbeard, and many more.The true stories - some humorous, some bloodcurdling - of the famous sea-going scoundrels who plundered North America from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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Intro to Pirates
First published in 1898, at a time when pulp-fiction was hitting its stride with wild west stories, Stockton presents us with a series of semi-biographies of pirates from the 18th century and later. He focuses primarily on the buccaneers, but verges over into the Golden Age of Piracy for the last few pirates. The list of pirates chronicled include: Peter the Great (aka Pierre Le Grand), Bartholemy Portuguez, John Esquemeling, Roc Braziliano, Francois L'Olonnois, Henry Morgan, Raveneau de Lussan, Blackbeard (aka Edward Teach), Stede Bonnet, Richard Worley, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Edward Low, Jean Lafitte and William Kidd.

There is a basis in fact, much of it taken from the writing of John Esquemeling. The author has also seen fit to flesh out the stories with fictional bits, meant to make for more entertaining reading (a la pulp fiction). And, it is entertaining reading. The stories have also been sanitized for younger readers, so parents do not need to worry about excessive violence and unsavory images. My version has only two pictures, the cover and the title page.

Overall, this is an excellent semi-introduction to pirates once young readers have passed the level of picture books like the Eyewitness series. I would put the age scale at about pre-teens to early teens. ... Read more