Horse Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

Horse Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) by Tesdell, Diana Secker. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780307961457.

A perfect Christmas gift—a beautifully jacketed Everymans Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of two centuries of short fiction about our most majestic companion animal. With full-cloth binding and a silk ribbon marker. Annie Proulx and Bret Harte transport us to the ranches of the Old West and Rudyard Kipling to the polo fields of India. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous Thoroughbred disappear, and Raymond Carver gives us a vision of runaway horses in the mist. Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, and Ted Hughes explore the human passions horses can unleash. From the rollicking racetrack humor of Damon Runyon to the poignant lyricism of John Steinbecks "The Red Pony" to the wild recklessness of adolescence in William Saroyans "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and Lydia Peelles "Sweethearts of the Rodeo," these stories testify to our varied and timeless fascination with the noble animal.