Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories
Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories is a collection of short stories and excerpts from longer works, both fiction and non-fiction. It was "first published in Great Britain in 1981 by Octopus Books Limited" and in the U.S.A. by Exeter Books. The latter printed a hardcover with the ISBN 0671092286. [1]
Contents [ edit ]
- Introduction by Richard Adams
- The Cat That Walked by Himself by Rudyard Kipling
- Lobo, the King of Currumpaw by Ernest Thompson Seton
- Flip by Geoffrey Morgan
- Adopting an Anteater (from Encounters with Animals) by Gerald Durrell
- Koko the Thingumabob (from The Prince who Hiccupped) by Anthony Armstrong
- Enter Emma (from Emma and I) by Sheila Hocken
- The Rabbit's Ghost Story by Richard Adams (later printed in Tales from Watership Down)
- Tuppenny and the Travelling Circus (from The Fairy Caravan) by Beatrix Potter
- Mary (from The John Collier Reader) by John Collier
- Hijacking a television studio is not easy (from Animal Days) by Desmond Morris
- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
- The Sounding of the Call (from The Call of the Wild) by Jack London
- Monty the Bull (from All things Bright and Beautiful) by James Herriot
- The Wonderful Tar Baby Story (from Uncle Remus) by Joel Chandler Harris
- The Volcano Rat (from Doctor Dolittle's Zoo) by Hugh Lofting
- The Wolves of Cernogratz by Saki
- Jumble (from Just William) by Richmal Crompton
- The First Release (from Born Free) by Joy Adamson
- (Excerpt from) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
References [ edit ]
- ↑Richard Adams's Favorite Animal Stories. New York: Exeter Books, 1981.
