Author: Frank R. Stockton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781434483478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Frank R. 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. 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).
The Reformed Pirate and Other Stories
Author: Frank R. Stockton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781434483478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Frank R. 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. 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).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781434483478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Frank R. 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. 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).
The Reformed Pirate
Author: Frank Richard Stockton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Presents twelve tales drawn from three story collections previously published 1881-1906.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Presents twelve tales drawn from three story collections previously published 1881-1906.
The phantom 'rickshaw and other stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Wish House and Other Stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307760022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307760022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
The Legacy and Other Stories
Author: Edith Layton
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1949135632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Previously published individually, these four great novellas are collected in one book for the first time! “The Legacy”—Valerian Blackwood is summoned to his aged uncle’s country estate to help the old man settle a problem with his heir. What Valerian finds is a mystery—and the love of his life. He only has to decide which is more important to him: solving the mystery or winning his lady. “Buried Treasure”—What is Hannah Jenkins to make of the wildly attractive silver-tongued man villagers bring to her family’s house after he is found injured on the shore near her seacoast home? He says he was the victim of pirates. But who is the pirate, and who is the prey? “Something Blue”—June Heywood’s coming wedding day is clouded by a vicious remark she overhears, causing her to wonder why the handsome and clever Lawrence, Lord Morrow, ever asked for her hand. Who should she believe? Gossip or her heart? “A Marriage of True Minds”—The bride’s sister and the groom’s brother, alike in temper, lock horns—all the while missing what their relatives can so plainly see.
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1949135632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Previously published individually, these four great novellas are collected in one book for the first time! “The Legacy”—Valerian Blackwood is summoned to his aged uncle’s country estate to help the old man settle a problem with his heir. What Valerian finds is a mystery—and the love of his life. He only has to decide which is more important to him: solving the mystery or winning his lady. “Buried Treasure”—What is Hannah Jenkins to make of the wildly attractive silver-tongued man villagers bring to her family’s house after he is found injured on the shore near her seacoast home? He says he was the victim of pirates. But who is the pirate, and who is the prey? “Something Blue”—June Heywood’s coming wedding day is clouded by a vicious remark she overhears, causing her to wonder why the handsome and clever Lawrence, Lord Morrow, ever asked for her hand. Who should she believe? Gossip or her heart? “A Marriage of True Minds”—The bride’s sister and the groom’s brother, alike in temper, lock horns—all the while missing what their relatives can so plainly see.
The Writings in Prose and Verse: The phantom 'rickshaw', and other stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Catalogue of Books in the Children's Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Catalogue of Books for Public School Libraries in the City of New York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Catalogue of Books, Annotated and Arranged, and Provided by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh for the Use of Th First Eight Grades in the Pittsburgh Schools
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description