The Great Stone of Sardis
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About This Book
Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) 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 12th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matterof- fact way in stories like The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) and The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales (1887). His most famous fable is ...
Chapters (27)
- THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS
- THE GREAT STONE OF SARDIS
- CHAPTER I. THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUTERPE-THALIA
- CHAPTER II. THE SARDIS WORKS
- CHAPTER III. MARGARET RALEIGH
- CHAPTER IV. THE MISSION OF SAMUEL BLOCK
- CHAPTER V. UNDER WATER
- CHAPTER VI. VOICES FROM THE POLAR SEAS
- CHAPTER VII. GOOD NEWS GOES FROM SARDIS
- CHAPTER VIII. THE DEVIL ON THE DIPSEY
- CHAPTER IX. THE ARTESIAN RAY
- CHAPTER X. “LAKE SHIVER”
- CHAPTER XI. THEY BELIEVE IT IS THE POLAR SEA
- CHAPTER XII. CAPTAIN HUBBELL TAKES COMMAND
- CHAPTER XIII. LONGITUDE EVERYTHING
- CHAPTER XIV. A REGION OF NOTHINGNESS
- CHAPTER XV. THE AUTOMATIC SHELL
- CHAPTER XVI. THE TRACK OF THE SHELL
- CHAPTER XVII. CAPTAIN HUBBELL DECLINES TO GO WHALING
- CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. MARCY'S CANAL
- CHAPTER XIX. THE ICY GATEWAY
- CHAPTER XX. “THAT IS HOW I LOVE YOU”
- CHAPTER XXI. THE CAVE OF LIGHT
- CHAPTER XXII. CLEWE'S THEORY
- CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST DIVE OF THE DIPSEY
- CHAPTER XXIV. ROVINSKI COMES TO THE SURFACE
- CHAPTER XXV. LAURELS
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