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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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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, editor.
Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, illustrator.
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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