Best Horse Stories

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BEST HORSE STORIES
Horses, writes jockey John Francome in his introduction to this anthology, "can surprise you with their intelligence within moments of being unbelievably stupid, and astonish you with their strength as well as their gentleness. To really understand them is something few people, including me, are able to do, and as such they have provided generations of authors with an ideal subject on which to loose their imaginations."
The 18 stories in this collection represent the imaginations of writers renowned for their horse tales, such as James Herriot, Anna Sewell, and Enid Bagnold, as well as other great authors including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, who offer their own unique visions and experiences with the noblest of creatures.
BEST HORSE STORIES is a diverse collection of tales about all different breeds. You'll root for Kipling's The Maltese Cat, an appropriately uncommon name for a polo pony who inspires his team of underdogs in the heat of... Tovább

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BEST HORSE STORIES
Horses, writes jockey John Francome in his introduction to this anthology, "can surprise you with their intelligence within moments of being unbelievably stupid, and astonish you with their strength as well as their gentleness. To really understand them is something few people, including me, are able to do, and as such they have provided generations of authors with an ideal subject on which to loose their imaginations."
The 18 stories in this collection represent the imaginations of writers renowned for their horse tales, such as James Herriot, Anna Sewell, and Enid Bagnold, as well as other great authors including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, who offer their own unique visions and experiences with the noblest of creatures.
BEST HORSE STORIES is a diverse collection of tales about all different breeds. You'll root for Kipling's The Maltese Cat, an appropriately uncommon name for a polo pony who inspires his team of underdogs in the heat of a match. How
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Mr. Pickwick Undertook to Drive and Mr. Winkle to Ride shares—in pure Dickensian style and humor—the tale of "four friends and their four-footed companion/' and their lesson in how difficult it can be to get to your destination if your horse doesn't want to take you. And Herriot's An Expensive Operation reevaluates who is the higher and who the lower of beasts when a veterinarian has to deal with a beautiful and noble horse for a patient, but a client who's as stubborn as a mule.
Illustrated with vivid line drawings, BEST HORSE STORIES is a celebration of this graceful animal that will delight horsepeople and animal lovers alike. Vissza