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The Red book of animal stories / selected and edited by Andrew Lang ; with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Children's stories.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 379 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York ; Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Company, [1899]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The phœnix
- Griffins and unicorns
- About ants, amphisbænas, and basilisks
- Dragons
- The story of Beowulf, Grendel, and Grendel's mother
- The story of Beowulf and the fire drake
- A fox tale
- An Egyptian snake charmer
- A adventure of Gérard, the lion hunter
- Pumas and jaguars in South America
- Mathurin and Mathurine
- Joseph: whose proper name was Josephine
- The homes of the Vizcachas
- Guanacos: living and dying
- In the American desert
- The story of Jacko II
- Princess
- The lion and the saint
- The further adventures of Tom, a bear in Paris
- Recollections of a lion tamer
- Sheep farming on the border
- When the world was young
- Bats and vampires
- The ugliest beast in the world
- The games of orang-outangs, and Kees the baboon
- Greyhounds and their masters
- The great father and snakes' ways
- Elephant shooting
- Hyenas and children
- A fight with a hippopotamus
- Kanny, the kangaroo
- Collies, or sheep dogs
- Two big dogs and a little one
- Crocodile stories
- Lion-hunting and lions
- On the trail of a man-eater
- Greyhounds and their Arab masters
- The life and death of a pincher
- A bear hunt by moonlight
- Thieving dogs and horses
- To the memory of a squoncer
- How Tom the bear was born a Frenchman
- Charley
- Fairy rings; and the fairies who make them
- How the reindeer live
- The cow and the crocodile.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
- OCLC:
- 679729519
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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