The Buller-Podington Compact

by Frank R. Stockton

The Buller-Podington Compact By Frank Richard Stockton [ZHINGOORA BOOKS]

First published August 16, 2012

About the author

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. 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, matter-of-fact way.

Reviews

[John Yelverton · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short story which borders on the absurd as two men with different phobias overcome them by enduring hybrid scenarios of their greatest love and worst fear, simultaneously.

[K. Anna Kraft · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku:

"The moment one sees
Scaring one's friend half to death
Isn't worth the ride."

[Glen Engel-Cox · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cozy story about two good friends who each has a deathly fear of the other’s abilities in a particular sport, so of course what occurs in the story is a realization of the fear, but it all works out okay as they are able to come to a new agreement about their friendship.

[laurel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a story about two friends who have never visited one another's homes: one has lots of horses and hates water, while the other hates horses and lives by the water. They make a pact to visit one another, and disastrous hilarity ensues. I guess humor has changed greatly since this was written, or maybe I just didn't like the readers (I had an audiobook).