Frank R. Stockton (Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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Although Frank R. Stockton is virtually unknown today, he was so greatly esteemed in his own era that American librarians in the 1890’s reported only Mark Twain and F. Marion Crawford as more in demand. A 1928 list of great books included Stockton’s as among the two hundred best worldwide, an 1899 poll by Literature ranked him fifth among the writers of his day (ahead of Henry James and Bret Harte), and...
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