Download or read book The Best of the Tooth Claw and Hoof Stories written by R. Mackintosh and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in this series contains several stories from each of the preceding four volumes (cats and dogs, farmyard animals, horses, wild animals) plus new stories about mules, dogs and cats, horses, and wild animals. All of the stories are true and are a part of the author's life in rural Kentucky and on Thoroughbred Blue Grass farms.

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of short stories from T.C. Boyle finds him at his mercurial best. Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing, these are stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares his apartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet; the drive-time shock jock hallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt; the suburban woman who joins a pack of dogs, eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a unique deftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail, Boyle has mapped the strange underworld of America.

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with Tooth and Claw, a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and family retainers, of courtship and country houses...in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high-and-mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Hoof and Claw written by Charles Roberts and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is to be doubted whether there is a more popular animal writer today than Charles G. D. Roberts, whose stories of forests and streams are read with pleasure by young and old alike. "A great book for boys of all ages, and one that could have been written only by Charles G. D. Roberts."-Boston Times.

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Saki and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories about Conradian, a ten-year-old who hates his aunt, and who keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed.

Download or read book Narnia and the Fields of Arbol written by Matthew Dickerson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy that “enriches our understanding of how to care for our world” (Alan Jacobs, author of Breaking Bread with the Dead). In Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis, authors Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara illuminate an important yet overlooked aspect of the author’s visionary work. They go beyond traditional theological discussions of Lewis’s writing to investigate themes of sustainability, stewardship of natural resources, and humanity’s relationship to wilderness. The authors examine the environmental and ecological underpinnings of Lewis’s work by exploring his best-known works of fantasy, including the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia and the three novels collectively referred to as the Space Trilogy. Taken together, these works reveal Lewis’s enduring environmental concerns, and Dickerson and O’Hara offer a new understanding of his pioneering style of fiction. Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, the first book-length work on the subject, finds the author’s legacy to have as much in common with the agrarian environmentalism of Wendell Berry as it does with the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien. In an era of increasing concern about deforestation, climate change, and other environmental issues, Lewis’s work remains as pertinent as ever. The widespread adaption of his work in film lends credence to the author’s staying power as an influential voice in both fantastical fiction and environmental literature. With Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, Dickerson and O'Hara have written a timely work of scholarship that offers a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated authors in literary history. “Both revelatory and a pleasure to read.” —Robert Siegel, award-winning author of The Whalesong Trilogy

Download or read book Hoof and Claw written by Charles G. D. Sir Roberts and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hoof and Claw" is an exceptional collection of short stories by the Canadian poet Charles Roberts, first published in 1914. The author, often considered the Father of Canadian Poetry, was best known for his short fiction on animals and nature. The book contains 14 stories, mostly about animals and people who live and work in the backcountry of Canada.

Download or read book Tooth and Claw written by Deborah Noyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the epic rivalry between two foundational paleontologists to find bigger and better bones in the American West, perfect for readers of Steve Sheinkin and Candace Fleming. Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen years later, it was not only incontrovertible; it was massive. Tooth and Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists--Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh--to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry--a "war" waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress--dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.

Download or read book Wiggle and His Friends written by Ibby Greer and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six stories that can be read to children, or read by young readers, of animals and children, in the eastern hills of Kentucky, these tales are based on true stories and the five books by R.L. Mackintosh: "Reigning Cats and Dogs," "Extraordinary, Ordinary Farm," "To Drink the Wind," "The Wildest Neighbors," and "The Best of the Tooth, Claw, and Hoof Stories," all available online and as Kindle books. Dogs, cats, a goat, a mule, a raccoon, a retired racehorse, and a fawn star in these stories, each with a happy ending.

Download or read book A Story of the Stone Age written by H.G. Wells and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Story of the Stone Age" is a short story written in 1897 by H. G. Wells. The story was featured in three parts between May and August 1897 in The Idler magazine, and was later released in collected editions

Download or read book The Dig written by Cynan Jones and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian "It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily Telegraph "Cynan Jones's fourth novel, The Dig, is an extraordinarily powerful work—not in spite of its brevity but because of it. . . . In its marriage of profound lyricism and feeling for place, deep human compassion and unflinching savagery, this brief and beautiful novel is utterly unique."—Financial Times Built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a farmer struggling through lambing season, The Dig unfolds in a stark rural setting where man, animal, and land are at loggerheads. There is no bucolic pastoral here: this is pure, pared-down rural realism, crackling with compressed energy, from a writer of uncommon gifts. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the United States.

Download or read book Hoof and Claw written by Charles G. D. Roberts and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is to be doubted whether there is a more popular animal writer today than Charles G. D. Roberts, whose stories of forests and streams are read with pleasure by young and old alike. "A great book for boys of all ages, and one that could have been written only by Charles G. D. Roberts."-Boston Times.

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Download or read book The Greatest Tales of Lost Worlds Alternative Universes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 4043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this unique Lost World collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Abraham Merritt: The Moon Pool The Metal Monster The People of the Pit Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The Mysterious Island Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race George MacDonald: Lilith H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines She: A History of Adventure Gertrude Barrows Bennett (aka Francis Stevens): The Citadel of Fear (5b) Edgar Rice Burroughs: Pellucidar Series: At the Earth's Core Pellucidar Caspak Series: The Land That Time Forgot The People That Time Forgot Out of Time's Abyss Other SF Novels: The Monster Men The Lost Continent (aka Beyond Thirty) Francis Bacon: New Atlantis C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne: The Lost Continent Philip K. Dick: Adjustment Team The Defenders

Download or read book The Best in Children s Books written by University of Chicago. Center for Children's Books and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to aid adults—parents, teachers, librarians—in selecting from the best of recent children's literature, this guide provides 1,400 reviews of books published between 1979 and 1984. This volume carries on the tradition established by Zena Sutherland's two earlier collections covering the periods from 1966 to 1972 and 1973 to 1978. Her 1973 edition of The Best in Children's Books was cited by the American School Board Journal as one of the outstanding books of the year in education.