Presents twenty-four of the nineteenth-century writer's works, including "The Griffin and the Minor Canon," "Old Pipes and the Dryad," and other tales

Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton

Literature & Fiction

Stockton, Frank

Literary

Signet Classics

Enter a magical realm of fantasy and adventure...a world of brave heroes, daring quests, and fabulous monsters! A sleepy village is thrown into a flurry when the local man-eating monster decides to pay a call in "The Griffin and the Minor Canon." A gentle beekeeper undertakes a dangerous journey to solve a sorcerer's mysterious riddle in "The Bee-man of Orn." Having angered the ruthless king of a faraway land, a young hero is forced to face the ultimate challenge...choose "The Lady, or the Tiger"? And re-enter the tiger's arena with "The Discourager of Hesitancy"--the rare and difficult continuation of "The Lady, or the Tiger"! These are but some of the timeless tales in this collection by a master American storyteller!

The Lady Or The Tiger (Tor Classics)

Classics

Tor Classics

Frank R. Stockton's stories recreate the events and moods of New Jersey from the days of the Lenni-Lenape Indians and the Dutch colonists to the expolits of New Jerseyans in the Mexican War. Here are the colorful historical and legendary figures of New Jersey's past: colonials who fought, traded with, and were captured by Indians; the perpetrators of New Jersey's own Tea Party; revolutionary heroes and heroines; frontiersmen, early inventors, schoolmasters, doctors, and privateersmen. Some of their stories have been told many times, but rarely as well. These tales are reproduced exactly as they first appeared in 1896, in a book which remained in print until 1945 and which has remained so popular over the years that it has in itself become a part of New Jersey's history. The book's turn-of-the-century flavor is enhanced by many illustrations, including drawings by twenty-one artists that provide realistic detail in the style of a bygone era.

Stories of New Jersey

Children's Books

History

Rutgers University Press

In this surprise-ending story designed to tantalize readers, a young man must choose the door on the left or the one on the right to face either a ferocious tiger or a lovely lady. A second story, "The Discourager of Hesitancy," completes the story. (Or does it?)

The Lady or the Tiger

Stockton, Frank Richard

Worthington Pr

The Magic Egg and Other Stories

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 this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Contemporary

IndyPublish

Classic / British English There are three exciting short stories in this book. They are all about ... fear! Three people are in dangerous places. What can they do? Will anybody help them?

Simply Suspense (Pearson English Graded Readers)

Penguin

Peguin Readers 2:Simply Suspense Book & CD Pack

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson

LEVEL 2: SIMPLY SUSPENSE BOOK AND MP3 PACK

It's Volume 4 of the Penny Dreadful Multipacks!  Included in this bundle:   ‘Frankenstein’ (1818 Version) by Mary Shelley; ‘The String of Pearls’ (Sweeney Todd) by James Malcolm Rymer and ‘The Lady or the Tiger’ by Frank Stockton.   Plus, original essay 'What is a Penny Dreadful?'   ‘Frankenstein’ (1818 Version) by Mary Shelley  This is the original, 1818 text. In 1831, the more traditionally first "popular" edition in one volume appeared.This version of the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the story more conservative, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. This edition tends to be the one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text, arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelley's original publication.  ‘The String of Pearls’ (Sweeney Todd) by James Malcolm Rymer  ‘The String of Pearls’ - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. The main antagonist of the story is the infamous Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street", who here makes his literary debut.  The tale became a staple of Victorian melodrama. It was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. The musical was adapted for the screen in 2007 as a musical film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. After 157 years of obscurity, here it is, the book that started it all, presented for the first time in stunning E-book format with original illustrations and extras.  ‘The Lady or the Tiger’ by Frank Stockton  "The lady, or the tiger?" has come into the English language as an allegorical expression, a shorthand indication or signifier for a problem that is unsolvable. The phrase started here, in the title of this short story that had the world talking when it was first published in The Century magazine in 1882. Its fame has long since faded but its capacity to make an impact on the reader remains. Its ending remains one of the greatest conundrums in literature.

Penny Dreadful Multipack Volume 4

Rymer, James Malcolm

Prest, Thomas Peckett

SHELLEY,MARY

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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