Frank Richard Stockton

Frank Richard Stockton was an American popular novelist, short story writer and humorist known for a series of innovative fairy tales for children. In his tales, he "avoided the didactic moralizing common to children’s stories of the time, using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power" and other human weaknesses, instead. His most famous fable remains "The Lady, or the Tiger?"

Classics

19th Century 10 min

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank Richard Stockton

In the very olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 21 min

The Griffin and the Minor Canon

Frank Richard Stockton

Over the great door of an old, old church which stood in a quiet town of a faraway land there was carved in stone the figure of a large griffin. The old-time sculptor had done his work with great ... [+]

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Frank Richard Stockton

The Lady, or the Tiger?

The Griffin and the Minor Canon