The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical works, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call.
The Horse Story Megapack
β Scribed by Mark Twain; Bret Harte
- Publisher
- Wildside Press LLC
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 407 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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...
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