Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Frank R. Stockton
Born: April 5, 1834
Died: April 20, 1902 (aged 68)
Bio: Frank Richard Stockton was 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.
Known for:
- The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882)
- The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales (1887)
- The griffin and the minor canon (1885)
- The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories (1884)
- The Adventures of Captain Horn (1894)