"This charming, funny and clever Christmas Holiday fantasy is narrated by Oscar nominated and Emmy Award Winning Special Makeup Effects Artist Edward E. French. Author Frank Richard Stockton, born April 5, 1834, was an American writer and humorist, best Remembered for his most famous fable, 'The Lady, or the Tiger?' (1882), about a man sentenced to an unusual punishment for having a romance with a king's beloved daughter. Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him. Behind the other is a beautiful lady-in-waiting, whom he will have to marry, if he opens that door. While the crowd waits anxiously for his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right. The lover starts to open the door and ... the story ends abruptly there. His earliest fiction was written for children. Among his most popular children’s stories were those collected in Ting-a-Ling Tales (1870) and The Floating Prince, and Other Fairy Tales (1881). He died on April 20, 1902, of cerebral hemorrhage and is buried at The Woodlands in Philadelphia."
"En esta interesante obra nos adentramos en los encantos y misterios de las dríades. Es todo una aventura imaginar cómo sería nuestra interacción con esas impresionantes criaturas."
"In this volume we discover that the obvious and the easy are not perhaps as obvious and easy as our authors first present them. They play with us. There is certainty. Then there is uncertainty. There is a fact and then seemingly not. One thing we can rely on though is that each new twist and turn takes us on a journey of frustration and exasperation that is as enjoyable as it is bewildering. And, in the company of the sparkling wits of Chesterton, Aumonier, Barrie and a host of others who summon indignation and vexation as they rile and befuddle us then being exasperated was never quite so much fun. 01 - Exasperated - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction02 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton03 - The Man Who Did Not Believe in Luck by Jerome K Jerome04 - Putois by Anatole France05 - The Lady, or the Tiger by Frank Stockton06 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie07 - The Absent Minded Man by Jerome K Jerome08 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne09 - The Mysterious Card by Cleveland Moffet10 - Where Was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier"