Stockton, Frank

1834 - 1902

American writer, often of humorous or "light" fiction aimed at what we now identify as "the young adult" market. He's most famous for "The Lady or the Tiger?"

Sites:
Biographical note
[Great Literature Online]
Brief biographical note
[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]
Bibliography
[Fantastic Fiction]


Etexts:
"The Borrowed Month"
from The Century, vol. 31, issues 4 (Part I) and 5 (Part II) (Feb, Mar 1886)
Part I, this link opens a new browser window Part II  this link opens a new browser window
From Cornell University's "Making of America" project; note that texts are available in multiple formats (image, pdf, plain text). The link here is to the images — e-facsimiles, basically — but you can easily select other viewing options once you're there (click on a page number, then select another "View As" option).
"The Christmas Shadrach"  this link opens a new browser window
From the December 1891 issue of The Century magazine, at Cornell U's "Making of America"
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.
"The Magic Egg"
- at UVa's Etext Center (31K)
- part of The Magic Egg and Other Stories, a Project Gutenberg etext (456K), so use your broswer's "Find" function to locate. zipped version (172K)
- at Cornell U's Making of America Project this link opens a new window
From the June 1894 issue of The Century magazine, at Cornell U's "Making of America"
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.
"Old Applejoy's Ghost" [1900] (25K) [Gaslight]
"The Philosophy of Relative Existences"  this link opens a new browser window
from the August 1892 issue of The Century magazine, at Cornell U's Making of America
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.
"The Spectral Mortgage"  this link opens a new browser window
The sequel to Stockton's "The Transferred Ghost," linked below
From the February 1883 issue of The Century magazine, at Cornell U's Making of America Project
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.
"Stephen Skarridge's Christmas"  this link opens a new browser window
A parody of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." From the January 1872 issue of Scribner's Monthly magzine, at Cornell U's Making of America Project
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.
"The Transferred Ghost"  this link opens a new browser window
From the May 1882 issue of The Century magazine, at Cornell U's Making of America Project
see note above re: stories at Cornell's "Making of America" project.



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