The Horse Story Megapack: 25 Exciting Equine Tales, Old and New

By Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Aug 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781479401413

Mark Twain

Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.

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