Research Catalog

Title

The red book of animal stories / selected and edited by Andrew Lang ; with numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.

Author

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Publication

London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1899.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941
• Longmans, Green, and Co. pbl
• Spottiswoode & Co. prt

Description

xi, 379 p. : ill.; 19 cm.

Subject

• Animals > Juvenile fiction
• Animals > Stories
• Children's stories

Genre/Form

• Children's stories – 1899.
• Fantasy literature – 1899.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

LCCN

^^^99004668^

OCLC

• 2834676
• SCSB-11743717

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library