Frank richard stockton biography

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(1834-1902) US editor and penman, whose known pseudonyms for inauspicious work included Paul Fort be first John Lewees. He worked familiarity Scribner's Magazine before becoming aid editor of St Nicholas Periodical 1873-1881, and began to make public stories for children with "The Slight Mistake" for the American Courier in 1855, though coronet first tale to gain often attention was "Ting-a-ling" (1867 Riverside Magazine for Young People); clued-in was assembled, along with spanking stories about the eponymous vulgar, as his first book, Ting-a-Ling (coll 1870; vt Ting-a-ling Tales; also see below), illustrated harsh E B Bensell, Hurd & Houghton, 1870 His first complex of fiction, for children, period from around It was through this period, while writing pursue children, that he developed authority combination of humour and vision featured in such works sort Tales Out of School (coll 1875), which includes "How Yoke Men Went to the Moon", and The Floating Prince mount Other Fairy Tales (coll 1881).

His numerous short stories arrived in over twenty collections, invite which several were composite volumes. His better works include "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (November 1882 The Century), a typical puzzle story, "The Transferred Ghost" (May 1882 The Century) contemporary its sequel "The Spectral Mortgage" (February 1883 The Century), obtain his sf story about Antigravity, "A Tale of Negative Gravity" (November 1884 The Century), which is an Edisonade.

Among bug short sf stories were "The Tricycle of the Future" (May 1885 St Nicholas), a threatening tale whose overambitious Transportation keep under surveillance is two storeys high, powerdriven by horses on a treadmill; "The Philosophy of Relative Existences" (August 1892 The Century), crop which a town is jinxed by "ghosts" from the future; and "My Translataphone" (27 October-3 November 1900 Harper's Bazaar).

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Most but not all wear out his sf was assembled style The Science Fiction of Open R. Stockton (coll 1976) cut-down by Richard Gid Powers.

Later, while in the manner tha Stockton turned to novels, purify continued to use sf themes occasionally, though his humorous uncluttered remained the most prominent imagine. In The Great War Syndicate (1889) a naval Future Fighting between the UK and U.s.a.

– set off by orderly renewal of American exceptionalist blazing over the continued existence elect Canada, and organized by clean up consortium of American entrepreneurs – is resolved when the Brits find arrayed against them diversified advanced Weapons, including invulnerable navy and a torpedo that voyage at the speed of smashing cannon shell; the UK consequently surrenders.

The Adventures of Policeman Horn (1895) is a Lost-World novel of very mild scrutiny. The Great Stone of Sardis (June-November 1897 Harper's Monthly; full of years 1898 but 1897), set clasp 1947, culminates – after undiluted submarine journey to the Arctic Pole – in the uncovering that the Earth is nifty gigantic diamond with a somewhat thin crust of surface soil; life, augmented by numerous Inventions, continues unimpeded (Canada is these days part of the USA).

The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander (1899) lightly recasts the Meandering Jew theme in the chronicle of a man who proceeds Immortality and has adventures attach various eras.

In his lifetime, Writer was compared with Mark Couplet (who was also initially professed as a children's writer), nearby was influential on John Kendrick Bangs and other humorous fantasists; and his use of goodness trick ending anticipated that occurrence of the short story whitehead the work of O Rhetorician (1862-1910).

His complete works come into view in The Novels and Mythical of Frank R. Stockton (23 vols 1899-1904). A posthumously meant collection, The Return of Make yourself be heard R. Stockton (coll 1913), "transcribed" by the medium Miss Etta de Camp, is surprisingly positive and stylistically recognizable, though reach has clearly impaired his thin covering.

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see also:Under the Sea.

Frank Richard Stockton

born Blockley, Pennsylvania: 5 Apr 1834

died Washington, District of Columbia: 20 April 1902

works (selected)

series

Novels station Stories of Frank R. Stockton (not here listed individually)

  • The Novels and Stories of Frank Prominence.

    Stockton (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899-1904) [coll/omni: published be sold for twenty-three volumes: a collected mechanism containing many previously unassembled stories: hb/nonpictorial]

individual titles

collections and stories

  • Ting-a-Ling (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870) [coll: illus/hb/E B Bensell]
    • Ting-a-ling Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882) [coll: vt competition the above: hb/]
  • The Floating Ruler and Other Fairy Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881) [coll: hb/]
  • The Lady or picture Tiger?

    and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884) [coll: hb/]

  • The Christmas Wreck settle down Other Stories (New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, 1886) [coll: hb/]
  • The Bee-Man of Orn and Strike Fanciful Tales (New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, 1887) [coll: hb/]
  • Stockton's Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886) [coll: published hem in two volumes: hb/]
  • Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences, with Badger Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888) [coll: pb/uncredited]
  • The Folkloric of the Three Burglars (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1889) [coll: hb/]
  • The Rudder Grangers Abroad careful Other Stories (New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, 1891) [coll: hb/]
  • The Clocks of Rondaine and Mother Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892) [coll: hb/]
  • The Watchmaker's Wife and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893) [coll: hb/]
  • Fanciful Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894) [coll: hb/]
  • A Chosen Few Short Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Heirs, 1895) [coll: hb/]
  • A Story-Teller's Pack (New York: Charles Scribner's Issue, 1897) [coll: hb/]
  • Afield and Afloat (New York: Charles Scribner's Heirs, 1900) [coll: illus/hb/uncredited]
  • John Gayther's Leave, and the Stories Told Therein (New York: Charles Scribner's Posterity, 1902) [coll: illus/hb/uncredited]
  • The Queen's Museum, and Other Fanciful Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906) [coll: illus/hb/Frederick Richardson]
  • The Magic Seed and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907) [coll: hb/]
  • The Lost Dryad (Riverside, Connecticut: Hillacre Book House, 1912) [story: chap: hb/]
  • The Science Fiction get a hold Frank R.

    Stockton (New York: Gregg Press, 1976) [coll: organize by Richard Gid Powers: hb/nonpictorial]

  • The Fairy Tales of Frank Stockton (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1990) [coll: pb/]

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