Delphi Complete Works of Frank R. Stockton (Illustrated) (ebook)

Frank R. Stockton is chiefly remembered today for his innovative short stories and children's fairy tales, which established his name as one of America’s greatest storytellers in the last decades of the nineteenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Stockton’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare story collections and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

• Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stockton’s life and works
• All 19 novels, with individual contents tables
• The complete short stories – with many rare tales
• Includes rare story collections appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including AFIELD AND AFLOAT, STEPHEN SKARRIDGE'S CHRISTMAS and many more
• Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
• Excellent formatting of the texts
• Many of the collections and novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork, featuring hundreds of images
• Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
• Easily locate the tales you want to read
• Includes Stockton’s rare non-fiction – available in no other collection
• Features the memoir by Marian E. Stockton - discover Stockton’s literary life
• Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

Contents:

• The Short Story Collections
• Ting-a-ling Tales
• Round-about Rambles In Lands Of Fact And Fancy
• Stephen Skarridge’s Christmas
• The Floating Prince And Other Fairy Tales
• The Lady Or The Tiger? And Other Stories
• A Borrowed Month And Other Stories
• The Bee-man Of Orn And Other Fanciful Tales
• Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences, With Other Stories
• The Clocks Of Rondaine, And Other Stories
• The Watchmaker’s Wife And Other Stories
• A Chosen Few Short Stories
• The Rudder Grangers Abroad And Other Stories
• John Gayther’s Garden And The Stories Told Therein
• The Magic Egg And Other Stories
• Afield And Afloat
• Miscellaneous Short Stories

The Short Stories

• List Of Short Stories In Chronological Order
• List Of Short Stories In Alphabetical Order

The Novels

• What Might Have Been Expected
• Rudder Grange
• A Jolly Fellowship
• The Casting Away Of Mrs Lecks And Mrs Aleshine
• The Late Mrs. Null
• The Dusantes
• The Associate Hermits
• The Girl At Cobhurst
• The House Of Martha
• The Squirrel Inn
• The Great War Syndicate
• Kate Bonnet: The Romance Of A Pirate’s Daughter
• A Bicycle Of Cathay
• Pomona’s Travels
• The Adventures Of Captain Horn
• Mrs. Cliff’s Yacht
• The Great Stone Of Sardis
• The Vizier Of The Two-horned Alexander
• The Captain’s Toll-gate

The Non-Fiction

• The Home: Where It Should Be And What To Put In It
• Stories Of New Jersey
• Buccaneers And Pirates Of Our Coasts

The Biography

• A Memorial Sketch Of Mr. Stockton By Marian E. Stockton