Frank Stockton 
Ten Novels 

These ten novels include Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, The Girl At Cobhurst, The Great Stone Of Sardis, The Great War Syndicate, The House Of Martha, A Jolly Fellowship, Kate Bonnet (The Romance of a Pirate’s Daughter), Rudder Grange, The Squirrel Inn, and The Vizier Of The Two-Horned Alexander. According to Wikipedia, ‘Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 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 19th 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, matter-of-fact way in stories like ‘The Griffin and the Minor Canon’ (1885) and ‘The Bee-Man of Orn’ (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. His most famous fable is ‘The Lady, or the Tiger?’ (1882).’