| Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Stockton, Frank R. (Author), West, James E. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1406561878 ISBN-13: 9781406561876 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an 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 12th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matterof- fact way in stories like The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) and The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales (1887). His most famous fable is The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882), which is about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: 910.453 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6" W x 9" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |