{"product_id":"a-horses-tale-hardback-9781496223678","title":"A Horse's Tale (Hardback) 9781496223678","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Horse's Tale\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Twain (Author), Charles C. Bradshaw (Edited by), Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496223678\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 December 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 6 photographs, 17 illustrations, 3 appendixes, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the twentieth century Minnie Maddern Fiske, a New York actress, socialite, and animal rights activist, wrote to Mark Twain with an unusual request: for Twain to write about the evils of bullfighting equal to that of his anti-vivisectionist story \u003ci\u003eA Dog’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e. Twain responded with \u003ci\u003eA Horse’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic animal tale that doubled as a frontier adventure and political diatribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Horse’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e concerns Soldier Boy, Buffalo Bill Cody’s favorite horse, as the protagonist and sometime narrator at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. Seventh Cavalry. When the general’s orphaned niece arrives, Buffalo Bill takes her under his wing and ultimately lends her Soldier Boy so that they may seek adventure together. Twain uses the friendship between the girl and the horse as the basis for his eventual indictment of the barbarism of Spanish bullfighting. Twain’s novella is unusual for its complex tone-combining a comic children’s story and a dark portrait of animal cruelty. Including the themes of transatlantic relations and frontier culture, Twain offers a fresh look into the world of Buffalo Bill Cody from the perspective of one of America’s most beloved authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First published in 1906 in \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e and as a single volume the following year, \u003ci\u003eA Horse’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e never again appeared in print except in anthologies of Twain’s work. This edition includes the full text of Twain’s original story, an introduction that situates the work in historical and biographical context, thorough annotations, and the addition of significant archival material related to Twain, Cody, and Fiske.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors’\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Language\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Editor’\u003cbr\u003es Introduction by Charles C. Bradshaw\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Horse’\u003cbr\u003es Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: Mark Twain and Animal Welfare\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: Childhood and the Clemens Family\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 3: The American Frontier Goes Global\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905943832,"sku":"9781496223678","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-horses-tale-hardback-9781496223678","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}