"The Stories of the Three Burglars" from Frank R. Stockton. American writer and humorist (1834-1902).

"The Vizier of the Two Horned Alexander" from Frank R. Stockton. American writer and humorist (1834-1902).

"Ting a ling" from Frank R. Stockton. American writer and humorist (1834-1902).

"What Might Have Been Expected" from Frank R. Stockton. American writer and humorist (1834-1902).

The Associate Hermits by Frank R. Stockton. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1899 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner Castor from San Francisco to Valparaiso was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm which rose with frightful suddenness was of short duration but it left the Castor a helpless wreck. Her masts had snapped off and gone overboard her rudder-post had been shattered by falling wreckage and she was rolling in the trough of the sea with her floating masts and spars thumping and bumping her sides

The story abot the burglars 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

The trials and tribulations of the arrival of the Modern age to a small community fill this entertaining novel by humorist Frank R. Stockton . Kate is helping organize a company that hopes to bring telegraph lines into this part of the woods for the first time; but as Treasurer and Secretary, it seems nothing is going as smoothly as it looked from the outset.

The story told in this book is based upon legendary history, and the statements on which it is founded appear in the chronicles of Abou-djafar Mohammed Tabari. In these chronicles Tabari relates some of the startling experiences of El Khoudr, or El Kroudhr, then Vizier of that great monarch, the Two-Horned Alexander, and these experiences furnish the motive for those subsequent adventures which are now related in this book. The hero of this story now deems it safe to speak out plainly without fear of evil consequences to himself, and his confidence in our high civilization is a compliment to...

Frank Richard 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 Born in Philadelphia in the year 1834, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career. After he married Mary Ann Edwards Tuttle, they moved to Burlington, New Jersey. 1] where he produced some of his first literary work. The couple then moved to Nutley, New Jersey.