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You will enjoy this if you like short stories told aloud, gentle comedy with a straight face, tall tales and love stories, and listeners who talk back to the teller.
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Picture an old gardener on a low stool, a knife in his hand, sharpening pea sticks he does not need. He is not really working. He is waiting for a young lady in gold spectacles to ask him for a story.
This is John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein, by Frank R. Stockton, an American writer famous for tales with a dry, deadpan wit. He gathers a household in one garden, where everyone tells a tale and the gardener tells three. The stories range from a sunken galleon to a ghost, and the listeners argue about every ending.
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- 1A gardener's stool becomes a storytelling placeFree
- 2A brig sits on top of two sunken ships
- 3A girl decides to nurse a war her own way
- 4A woman sleeps in a box for forty years
- 5A rich man's cottage costs a fortune to fake
- 6A sea captain goes courting in a spring wagon
- 7A tiger rides in a balloon and a prince rents land
- 8A ghost watches her own family for a single day
- 9A machine and a matchmaker test marriage promises
- 10A farmer fights thunder and the garden winds down
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A gardener's stool becomes a storytelling place
The book opens with the garden itself. John Gayther does not own it. He looks after it for a fine old family, yet he fits the place so closely that a stranger might take him for its founder.
He has been a sailor, a soldier, a miner and a rancher. The Mistress of the House loves flowers in great heaps. She thins them out with cheerful recklessness and tosses them on the path, where John gathers them up.
When a story is wanted, John carries pea sticks to his little garden house, sits on a stool and trims them. The knife gives his hands something to do and lets him listen without seeming to. Between tales, the garden changes with the season, from June peas to late August melons.
The frame makes the audience part of each tale. A tale in this book is never finished until the listeners have had their say.
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- LengthAbout 89,000 words
- Reading timeAbout 6 h 15 min
Questions about El jardín de John Gayther y los cuentos que allí se narran
What is John Gayther's Garden about?
It is about a gardener and the family he serves, who spend a summer telling each other stories in a garden summerhouse. Eleven tales follow, from a sunken treasure ship to a tiger in a balloon, with the listeners commenting throughout.
Who tells the stories in John Gayther's Garden?
Each chapter names its teller. John Gayther tells three. The others are told by the Daughter, the Mistress and the Master of the House, the Frenchman, the Old Professor, the Next Neighbor, and by Pomona and Jonas through a manuscript.
Is John Gayther's Garden a true story?
No. Frank R. Stockton, who died in 1902, invented the garden and every story told in it. The tales are meant as comic fiction, and the characters often argue about how true to life each one is.
Is John Gayther's Garden easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that each chapter is a self-contained tale in plain, lively talk. You can read one story at a time. The frame gives you short breaks of conversation between them.
What is the main message of the book?
It celebrates storytelling as a shared pleasure, and it suggests that stories reveal people through how they tell them and how they listen. Humor, kindness and curiosity run through the tales.
Cite this edition
Stockton, Frank R. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/john-gaythers-garden-and-the-stories-told-therein.
Stockton, F. R. (2026). John Gayther's garden and the stories told therein. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/john-gaythers-garden-and-the-stories-told-therein (Original work published 1902)
Stockton, Frank R. John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/john-gaythers-garden-and-the-stories-told-therein.
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