| A Horse's Tale Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1533530467 ISBN-13: 9781533530462 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.54 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1907 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.09" H x 8" W x 10" (0.23 lbs) 42 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it. I got it out of John Hay's Castilian Days, reducing and condensing it to fit the requirements of this small story. Mr. Hay and I were friends from early times, and if he were still with us he would not rebuke me for the liberty I have taken. The knowledge of military minuti exhibited in this book will be found to be correct, but it is not mine; I took it from Army Regulations, ed. 1904; Hardy's Tactics-Cavalry, revised ed., 1861; and Jomini's Handbook of Military Etiquette, West Point ed., 1905. It would not be honest in me to encourage by silence the inference that I composed the Horse's private bugle-call, for I did not. I lifted it, as Aristotle says. It is the opening strain in The Pizzicato in Sylvia, by Delibes. When that master was composing it he did not know it was a bugle-call, it was I that found it out. |