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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

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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