The Reformed Pirate and Other Stories

Frank R. Stockton April 5 1834 April 20 1902 was an American writer andhumorist best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy talesthat were wide... » 

Frank R. Stockton April 5 1834 April 20 1902 was an American writer andhumorist best known today for a series of innovative childrens fairy talesthat were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stocktonavoided the didactic moralizing common to childrens stories of the timeinstead using clever humor to poke at greed violence abuse of power and otherhuman foibles describing his fantastic characters adventures in a charmingmatteroffact way in stories like The Griffin and the Minor Canon 1885 andThe BeeMan of Orn 1887. «