The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander

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The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander is by Frank R. Stockton, 1899. The prefatory note says that the story told in this book is based upon legendary history, and that the statements on which it is founded appear in the chronicles of Abou-djafar Mohammed Tabari. The prefatory note adds that in these chronicles Tabari relates some of the startling experiences of El Khoudr, or El Kroudhr, then Vizier of that great monarch, the Two-Horned Alexander.

A narrator says that when the fog lifted, about ten o'clock in the morning, no signs of any of the boats could be seen. A narrator says that Mr. Crowder knew all about the ship, and where to find everything. A speaker who says "I married a young woman of Rhodes" adds that "we had not been married a year when she ran away with a young goldsmith." A speaker says that a woman called her guards and had the speaker sent to prison as a cheat and an impostor.

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Frank R. Stockton

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer and humorist who worked as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before turning to fiction and children's writing in his thirties. He is best remembered for "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882), a story whose withheld ending became a national parlor argument, and for the Rudder Grange books that began in 1879.