Horse Books and Stories
A variety of horse books, short stories and excerpts.
A variety of horse books, short stories and excerpts.
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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder by Islandische Mährchen
The Fox and The Horse by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Horse and The Olive by James Baldwin
The Bride of the Man-Horse by Lord Dunsany
The Enchanted Horse from Arabian Nights Entertainments
The Horse, Hunter, and Stag Aesop fable retold by Joseph Jacobs
Horse Cursed by the Sun South-African folk tale retold by James A. Honey, M.D
The Boy Who Rode Into the Sunset by CJ Dennis
The Horse Heavier by Lyman Bryson
The Magician’s Horse edited by Andrew Lang
Ivan and the Chestnut Horse by Edmund Dulac
A Horse’s Tale by Mark Twain
The Black Horse edited by Joseph Jacobs
A Horse Who Wore Snowshoes produced by Dianne Bean and David Widger
The Story of the Magic Horse retold by Laurence Housman
The Talking Horse by F. Anstey
The Wooden Horse by Johnny Gruelle
The Flaming Horse retold by Parker Fillmore
Scottish Horse Superstitions collected by John Gregorson Campbell
Pegasus, the Horse Who Could Fly by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
How the Horses of the Sun Ran Away retold by Mary Catherine Judd
Five Men’s Lives for One Horse by Rolf Boldrewood.
The Story of Captain, the Horse with the Human Brain by George Wharton James
The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and L. Frank Baum