Frank R Stockton

The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales . by Frank R Stockton

10 short fairy tales from 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 1. The Floating Prince 2. How the Aristocrats Sailed Away; A Sequel to The Floating Prince 3. The Reformed Pirate 4. Huckleberry 5. The Gudra's Daughter 6. The Emergency Mistress 7. The Sprig of Holly 8. The Magician's Daughter and the High-Born Boy 9. Derido; or, The Giant's Quilt 10. The Castle of Bim Rudder Grange, a humorous story by Frank R. Stockton, appeared serially in 1879. It was the first of the author's books to establish for him a wide reputation. A slight thread of story suffices to connect a series of humorous episodes which result from the efforts of a young couple-Euphemia, and her husband who tells the story in the first person-to establish themselves in a summer home at once desirable and inexpensive.