Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902)
Autore di The Bee-Man of Orn
Sull'Autore
Frank Richard Stockton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1834. In 1868, he started working for the magazine Hearth and Home, where he wrote fairy tales as well as stories and articles on a variety of subjects for adults. In 1874, he became the assistant editor of Saint Nicholas mostra altro Magazine and worked there until 1878 when he was forced to resign due to failing eyesight. He continued to write by dictating to his wife or a professional secretary. His first fairy tale, Ting-a-Ling, was published in The Riverside Magazine in 1867 and his first book collection was published in 1870. His works include The Lady or the Tiger, The Griffin and the Minor Canon, The Bee-Man of Orn, The House of Martha, and The Lost Dryad. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 20, 1902 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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(eng) Stockton, Frank Richard (1834-1902) American writer and humorist
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Opere di Frank R. Stockton
Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 4 (Illustrated. Annotated. Includes 'Frankenstein (1818 Uncensored Version), 'String of… (2014) 9 copie
Old Applejoy's Ghost 3 copie
Delphi Complete Works of Frank R. Stockton (Illustrated) (Series Six Book 23) (English Edition) (2016) 2 copie
The Dusantes: A Sequel to "the Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" (Classic Reprint) (2011) 2 copie
The Story of Viteau 1 copia
New Jersey, from the discovery of Scheyichbi to recent times, (Stories from American history) (1896) 1 copia
The Reformed Pirate 1 copia
The Merry Chanter 1 copia
Tales out of school 1 copia
JOHN GAYTHER’S GARDEN 1 copia
The Poor Count's Christmas 1 copia
The Transferred Ghost 1 copia
The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton Vol. XIII The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine and The Vizier… (1900) 1 copia
The Captain's Tollgate 1 copia
The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton: the Great Stone of Sardis and the Water-Devil (1900) 1 copia
O Homem-Abelha de Orn 1 copia
Draken och prästen 1 copia
The Skipper and El Capitan 1 copia
Stephen Skarridge's Christmas 1 copia
The Young Master of Hyson Hall 1 copia
Opere correlate
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Collaboratore — 565 copie
The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language (1947) — Collaboratore — 137 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981) — Collaboratore — 136 copie
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 6: Mythical Beasties (1837) — Collaboratore — 123 copie
The Best American Humorous Short Stories [Edited by Alexander Jessup] (1920) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (1987) — Collaboratore — 40 copie
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction (2016) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
The Origins of Science Fiction (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) (2022) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
The Forgotten Classics of Mystery, Volume II: An Omnibus of American Mysteries (1959) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Representative American Short Stories — Collaboratore — 5 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Stockton, Francis Richard
- Altri nomi
- Fort, Paul
Lewees, John
Stockton, Frank
Stockton, Frank Richard - Data di nascita
- 1834-04-05
- Data di morte
- 1902-04-20
- Luogo di sepoltura
- The Woodlands, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Nutley, New Jersey, USA - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
humourist - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1898)
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Stockton, Frank Richard (1834-1902) American writer and humorist
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Recensioni
The Lady, or the Tiger? Illustrated di Frank R. Stockton
This tightly written story is an engrossing tale for which you will need to write your own ending. Stockton does a great job of leading his readers right up to that non-ending end, from which you surely know, by the time you have finished the story, just how he meant for it to end . . . or do you? Alas, the debate goes on and on and on . . .
This is a classic story I had to read in junior-high (1950s) as preparation for an assignment to write a 'balanced' short story. I can't remember how well I did, but oddly I still remember the story.
Many of you may have had a similar experience, but if you haven't the story is well worth reading. It's really a story about human nature that will leave you guessing.
Many of you may have had a similar experience, but if you haven't the story is well worth reading. It's really a story about human nature that will leave you guessing.
Frank R. Stockton’s The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander is a breezy, fun yarn about a man who's lived about three thousand years. It is not quite a novel. But it is well-written and entertaining.
Highly recommended. Amusingly, though it deals with Moses and Joshua, it skirts Jesus and the disciples and apostles and all that. As such it is ... careful.
Highly recommended. Amusingly, though it deals with Moses and Joshua, it skirts Jesus and the disciples and apostles and all that. As such it is ... careful.
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wirkman | Feb 4, 2021 |
wirkman | Feb 4, 2021 | 
Beforehand, I hoped “The Adventures of Captain Horn” would be an exciting read, but it turned out to be slow-paced and short of thrills.
I almost stopped reading after the first few pages, as what you get is a third-person narrator explaining how Captain Horn’s ship is wrecked on an island. None of this is dramatized, therefore it’s similar to reading a newspaper article.
At long length, I came to some dialogue exchanges between Horn and a handful of survivors. This interested me enough to continue. I usually like shipwreck tales, providing they aren’t dull and uneventful, and hoped this one would start to improve.
The story adds some suspense when Horn and friends learn that a motley crew known as the Rackbirds share the island with them. The Rackbirds keep five African men slaves, of which one escapes and seeks shelter with Horn’s group. From here, it builds to what appears to be inevitable conflict, but sadly the outcome is a complete let down.
The anti-climax regarding the Rackbirds sets the tone for the rest of the book, as whenever Horn or one of his comrades face any danger, it’s easily overcome.
So, rather than an exciting face-off with the Rackbirds, Horn instead discovers a lot of gold. What to do with the gold, how to move the gold, and how to distribute the gold dominates the rest of the story. From this point, which is about one-quarter into the novel, I found myself skipping paragraphs, as the narrative becomes monotonous and passive.
For instance, a long section features Horn moving the gold from A to B. We get lengthy sections of Horn or one of the other characters wondering what they’ll do about such and such a thing, which is usually relating to the gold. I found this very boring.
Also, we have a lot of occasions where one character reads/hears about what another has been doing, so you get lengthy details of past events “told” as a second-hand account, as opposed to “showing” these event as they happen. Little is dramatized. It’s all explained in passive prose.… (altro)
I almost stopped reading after the first few pages, as what you get is a third-person narrator explaining how Captain Horn’s ship is wrecked on an island. None of this is dramatized, therefore it’s similar to reading a newspaper article.
At long length, I came to some dialogue exchanges between Horn and a handful of survivors. This interested me enough to continue. I usually like shipwreck tales, providing they aren’t dull and uneventful, and hoped this one would start to improve.
The story adds some suspense when Horn and friends learn that a motley crew known as the Rackbirds share the island with them. The Rackbirds keep five African men slaves, of which one escapes and seeks shelter with Horn’s group. From here, it builds to what appears to be inevitable conflict, but sadly the outcome is a complete let down.
The anti-climax regarding the Rackbirds sets the tone for the rest of the book, as whenever Horn or one of his comrades face any danger, it’s easily overcome.
So, rather than an exciting face-off with the Rackbirds, Horn instead discovers a lot of gold. What to do with the gold, how to move the gold, and how to distribute the gold dominates the rest of the story. From this point, which is about one-quarter into the novel, I found myself skipping paragraphs, as the narrative becomes monotonous and passive.
For instance, a long section features Horn moving the gold from A to B. We get lengthy sections of Horn or one of the other characters wondering what they’ll do about such and such a thing, which is usually relating to the gold. I found this very boring.
Also, we have a lot of occasions where one character reads/hears about what another has been doing, so you get lengthy details of past events “told” as a second-hand account, as opposed to “showing” these event as they happen. Little is dramatized. It’s all explained in passive prose.… (altro)
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