Long novel e-books (over 3h to read) of Frank Richard Stockton

A Greenhorn under the Black Flag

CHAPTER I TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes.

An Inspiration XLI.

CHAPTER I AN INTRODUCTORY DISASTER Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner _Castor_, from San Francisco to Valparaiso, was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru.

ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES In Lands of FACT AND FANCY BY FRANK R STOCKTON ...

by FRANK R. STOCKTON New York--Cincinnati--Chicago American Book Company 1896 Copyright, 1896, by American Book Company.

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THE MAGIC EGG AND OTHER STORIES BY FRANK R. STOCKTON CONTENTS THE MAGIC EGG "HIS WIFE'S DECEASED SISTER" THE WIDOW'S CRUISE CAPTAIN ELI'S BEST EAR LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST THE ST...

CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUTERPE-THALIA It was about noon of a day in early summer that a westward-bound Atlantic liner was rapidly nearing the port of New York.

_POMONA'S TRAVELS_ _A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her former Handmaiden_ [Illustration] POMONA'S TRAVELS [Illustration] BY FRANK R. STOCKTON ILLUSTRATED BY A.B. F...

CHAPTER I. There was a wide entrance gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horse...

CHAPTER I ALONE WITH HER WEALTH On a beautiful September afternoon in a handsome room of one of the grand, up-town hotels in New York sat Mrs. Cliff, widow and millionaire.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein [Illustration: "Are you going to ask me to marry your husband if you should happen to die?"] John Gaythe...

CHAPTER I. Treating of a Novel Style of Dwelling-house CHAPTER II. Treating of a Novel Style of Boarder CHAPTER III. Treating of a Novel Style of Girl CHAPTER IV. Treating o...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Frank B. Stockton _Etching by Jacques Reich from a photograph._ The Holt, Mr. Stockton's home near Convent, N.J. Claymont, Mr. Stockton's home near Charles Tow...

PART I [Illustration] I was on my way from San Francisco to Yokohama, when in a very desultory and gradual manner I became acquainted with Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine.

CHAPTER I DR. TOLBRIDGE It was about the middle of a March afternoon when Dr. Tolbridge, giving his horse and buggy into the charge of his stable boy, entered the warm hall of his house.

CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF A WEDDING-JOURNEY Mr. and Mrs. Hector Archibald were prosperous and happy dwellers in a suburb of one of our large towns.