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Dive into a whimsical world with this captivating collection of nine short stories that are sure to spark your imagination. Each tale features curious creatures and delightful surprises, including The Bee-Man of Orn, The Griffin and the Minor Canon, Old Pipes and the Dryad, The Queens Museum, Christmas Before Last Or, The Fruit of the Fragile Palm, Prince Hassaks March, The Battle of the Third Cousins, The Banished King, and The Philopena (summary by Gryphon Perkins).

Dive into the whimsical world of Rudder Grange, a collection of delightful comedic sketches that portray the charm and quirks of rural life in late 1800s middle America. Follow the endearing and somewhat naive married couple as they navigate a series of hilarious misadventures, with the eccentric orphan servant Pomona taking center stage in many of the tales. Picture a honeymoon spent in a lunatic asylum, and youll get a taste of the laugh-out-loud moments that await you in this charming book!

In addition to the children's tales that he is usually known for, Frank R. Stockton also wrote some ghost stories. This particular piece is from 1900. After a gentleman purchases an abandoned mansion, he begins to fall in love with the ghost of a young woman who returns to her old home once a year, on Christmas Eve, for a single hour. But what happens when he soon meets her, not as a specter but in real life?

The Lady, or The Tiger, written by Frank R. Stockton and narrated by Rebecca Thomas, invites the listener into a semi-barbaric world where justice is decided by fate. The right choice rewards the innocent with marriage; the wrong choice punishes the guilty by serving him to a starving tiger. When the princess' lover is sent to the arena, she discovers the secret of the choice. But what choice does she herself make?

A glittering collection of classic stories for children, which have delighted generations and continue to appeal.

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting. In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining.

Being an English author in a new and different culture seems to work its magic when these two are placed together in the same spot with a rich vocabulary; ideas seem more fully formed and characters have another edge to their existence. For the outsider looking in, more can be revealed and shared with ourselves.