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    The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New
    The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New
    The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New
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    The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New

    By Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle

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    The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and many others!


    Included are:
    Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
    The Man from Snowy River, by A. B. Paterson [poem]
    Chu Chu, by Bret Harte
    John G., by Katherine Mayo
    Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Jonathan Swift
    How the Old Horse Won the Bet, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem]
    A Horse's Tale, by Mark Twain
    The Talking Horse, by F. Anstey
    Samuel Cowles and His Horse Royal, by Eugene Field
    A Horseman in the Sky, by Ambrose Bierce
    The Dun Horse, by George Bird Grinnell
    The Enchanted Horse, by Amy Steedman
    At Galway Races, by William Butler Yeats [poem]
    A Ride with a Mad Horse in a Freight-Car, by W. H. H. Murray
    Buying a Horse, by William Dean Howells
    Skipper: Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner, by Sewell Ford
    The Instinct of Animals: Horses, by Thomas Bingley
    A Night Among the Horses, by Djuna Barnes
    He Walked Around the Horses, by H. Beam Piper
    The Horse of the Invisible, by William Hope Hodgson
    Miles Keogh's Horse, by John Hay [poem]
    The War Horse of Alexander, by Plutarch, edited by Andrew Lang
    Heads and Tales: The Horse," edited by Adam White
    Heart Bar Johnny, by Mary Wickizer Burgess
    Lady Clare: The Story of a Horse, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
    Zadig: The Dog and the Horse, by Voltaire
    My First Horse Surgery, by Mark E. Burgess
    Silver Blaze, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Ballad of the Drover, by Henry Lawson [poem]
    Horse Latitudes: Return to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, by Robert Reginald


    And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in the series, covering everything from animal stories to classics to science fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories...and much, much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 5, 2013
    ISBN9781479401413
    The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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