Author:Frank Richard Stockton

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Frank Richard Stockton
(1834–1902)

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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.
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Frank Richard Stockton

Works

Collections

The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton (23 volumes)

Non-fiction

The home. Where it should be and what to put in it (1872)
Stories of New Jersey (1896)
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (1898)

Novels

Ting-a-Ling (1870)
What Might Have Been Expected (1874)
A Jolly Fellowship (1880) Juvenile.
Captain Chap, or, The rolling stones (1882, serially; 1897)
The Story of Viteau (1884) Juvenile.
The Hundredth Man (1886)
The Late Mrs. Null (1886)
Ardis Claverden (1889)
The Great War Syndicate (1889)
The Merry Chanter (1889)
Personally Conducted (1889) Juvenile.
The Stories of the Three Burglars (1889)
The House of Martha (1891)
The Squirrel Inn (1891)
The Great Stone of Sardis (1897)
The Water-Devil (1897)
The Associate Hermits (1898)
The Girl at Cobhurst (1898)
The Vizier of the Two-horned Alexander (1898)
The Young Master of Hyson Hall (1899)
A Bicycle of Cathay (1900)
Kate Bonnet: The romance of a pirate's daughter (1901) (unindexed)
John Gayther's Garden and the stories told therein (1902)
The Captain's Toll-Gate (1903) (external scan)

Series

Rudder Grangers

Rudder Grange (1879)
The Rudder Grangers Abroad and other stories (1891) short stories
Pomona's Travels (1894)

Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine

The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine , 1918 (1886) illus. Frederic Dorr Steele
The Dusantes: A sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" (1888) (Commons file)

Captain Horn

The Adventures of Captain Horn (1895) (transcription project)
Mrs. Cliff's Yacht (1896) (transcription project)

Stories

Story collections

Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy (1872) Juvenile.
Tales out of school (1875) Juvenile.
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales (1881)
The lady, or the tiger? and other stories (1884)
The Christmas Wreck and other stories (1886)
The Bee-man of Orn, and other fanciful tales (1887)
The Clocks of Rondaine, and other stories (1892)
The Watchmaker's wife and other stories (1893)
A Chosen Few (1895)
A Story Teller's Pack (1897)
Afield and Afloat (1900)

Contributions to Periodicals

"A Thing that Glistened" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (4) (1891).
"Major Pendallas" in The Strand Magazine, 2 (12) (1891).

Individual stories

"The Floating Prince"
"How the Aristocrats Sailed Away" Sequel to "The Floating Prince"
"The Reformed Pirate"
"Huckleberry"
"The Gudra's Daughter"
"The Emergency Mistress"
"The Sprig of Holly"
"The Magician's Daughter and the High-Born Boy"
"Derido; or, The Giant's Quilt"
"The Castle of Bim"
"The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882)
"The Discourager of Hesitancy" (1883). Sequel to "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (unindexed)
"The Transferred Ghost"
"The Spectral Mortgage" Sequel to "The Transferred Ghost"
"Our Archery Club"
"That Same Old 'Coon"
"His Wife's Deceased Sister"
"Our Story"
"Mr. Tolman"
"On the Training of Parents"
"Our Fire-Screen"
"A Piece of Red Calico"
"Every Man His Own Letter-Writer"
"The Bee-man of Orn"
"The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885)
"Old Pipes and the Dryad"
"The Queen's Museum"
"Christmas before Last; or, The Fruit of the Fragile Palm"
"Prince Hassak's March"
"The Battle of the Third Cousins"
"The Banished King"
"The Philopena"
"Derelict"
"A Borrowed Month"
"The Baker of Barnbury"
"The Watchmaker's Wife"
"A Tale of Negative Gravity"
"Asaph"
"The Remarkable Wreck of the "Thomas Hyke""
"An Unhistoric Page"
"The Cloverfield's Carriage"
"A Story of Assisted Fate"
"My Bull-Calf"
"As One Woman to Another"
"My Terminal Moraine"
"Plain Fishing"
"The Clocks of Rondaine"
"Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences"
"The Christmas Shadrach"
"The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby"
"The Philosophy of Relative Existences"
"The Magic Egg"
"The Widow's Cruise"
"Captain Eli's Best Ear"
"Love before Breakfast"
"The Staying Power of Sir Rohan"
"The Christmas Wreck"
"My Well and What Came Out of It"
"My Unwilling Neighbor"

Attributed to

Return of Frank R. Stockton via Etta de Camp (external scan)

Works about Stockton

To Our "Merry Chanter", a poem by Julie Mathilde Lippmann in The Century Magazine (July 1902)
"My Stockton if I failed to like" (1884), a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson in The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2 p. 251

Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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