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SYNOPSIS
At 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 A Dog’s Tale. Twain responded with A Horse’s Tale, a comic animal tale that doubled as a frontier adventure and political diatribe.
A Horse’s Tale 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.
A Horse’s Tale 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.
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
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| ISBN: | 9789893558034 |
| Publisher: | Língua Original |
| Release Date: | April of 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 139 x 211 x 6 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 88 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
Books in English
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Fiction
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Fiction
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| EAN: | 9789893558034 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910) foi batizado como Samuel Langhorne Clemens, mas esse nome ficaria para sempre na sombra do seu pseudónimo. Filho de um advogado severo, terá sido a mãe a despertar-lhe o sentido de humor. Se não há dúvida de que a sua obra é variada, mais curioso será notar que a sua vida profissional o foi mais ainda. Twain começou por trabalhar como aprendiz de tipógrafo, em 1848, e alguns anos mais tarde já contribuía com artigos e histórias humorísticas para o jornal de um irmão. Mais velho, numa viagem pelo Mississípi a bordo de um barco a vapor, terá ficado fascinado com o trabalho do piloto, e dedicou dois anos da sua vida à aprendizagem deste ofício. Uma das muitas viagens da sua vida levou-o, algum tempo depois, a uma mina de prata no Nevada, onde tentou ser mineiro, sem grande sucesso. Em contrapartida, encontrou trabalho no jornal da zona. Foi aqui que, da pena de Samuel Clemens, então com 27 anos, nasceu Mark Twain. É autor de A Viagem dos Inocentes (Tinta-da-china, 2010) e de duas obras a que é invariavelmente associado: As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer (1876) e As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (1884).
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