Books with title The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated

The Heart of a Dog is a lovely collection of short stories written by the immortal writer of collie and dog tales, Albert P. Terhune. This book contains a range of heart-warming adventures based around the canine residents of Terhune’s Sunnybank kennels and includes the famous Lad. This text is sure to make the reader laugh and cry in equal amounts and is guaranteed to be a challenge to put down. A must-read for any lover of dogs, Terhune’s delightful work continues to entertain adults and children alike, imparting life lessons sure to be remembered by his readers for years to come. Albert Payson Terhune was a famous American author, journalist, and dog breeder. We are proud to republish this scarce book with a new introductory biography so that it can be enjoyed by discerning readers for generations to come.

Following his massive―and massively successful―Moby Dick in Pictures, artist Matt Kish has set himself upon an equally impressive, and no less harrowing, task: illustrating each page of Joseph Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness.Kish’s rich, imaginative drawings and paintings mirror Conrad’s original text and serve to illuminate Marlow’s journey into the heart of the Congo, and into the depths of the human soul. Heart of Darkness is a text ripe for analysis and argument, formally and thematically; it explores matters of imperialism, racism, gender, and the duality of human nature. Kish’s illustrations add another layer, and another voice in the conversation. Heart of Darkness: The Illustrated Edition is an essential edition for fans and students of Conrad’s work, but is, above all, a piece of art all its own.Kish’s introduction lends context to his approach, details his relationship and struggle with Conrad’s work, and illuminates his own creative process. An index in the rear of the book catalogs the sentences and phrases that inspired each of the one hundred original pieces of art.

The Heart of a Dog is a lovely collection of short stories written by the immortal writer of collie and dog tales, Albert P. Terhune. This book contains a range of heart-warming adventures based around the canine residents of Terhune’s Sunnybank kennels and includes the famous Lad. This text is sure to make the reader laugh and cry in equal amounts and is guaranteed to be a challenge to put down. A must-read for any lover of dogs, Terhune’s delightful work continues to entertain adults and children alike, imparting life lessons sure to be remembered by his readers for years to come. Albert Payson Terhune was a famous American author, journalist, and dog breeder. We are proud to republish this scarce book with a new introductory biography so that it can be enjoyed by discerning readers for generations to come.

When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox. They had visited the National Exhibition of silver foxes. They had spent days at successful fox farms, studying every detail of management and memorising the rigid diet-charts. They had committed to memory every fact and hint in Bulletin No. 1151 of the United States Department of Agriculture—issued for the help of novice breeders of silver foxes. They had mastered each and every available scrap of exact information concerning the physical welfare of captive silver foxes. But, for lack of half a lifetime’s close application to the theme, their knowledge of fox mentality and fox nature was nil. Now one may raise chickens or hogs or even cattle, without taking greatly into account the inner workings of such animals’ brains. But no man yet has made a success of raising foxes or their fifth cousin, the collie, without spending more time in studying out the mental than the physical beast. On the kitchen wall of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., was the printed dietary of silver foxes. On the one library shelf of the kennel was all the available literature on silver fox breeding, from government pamphlets to a three-volume monograph. In the four-acre space within the kennel enclosure were thirty model runways, twenty by twenty feet; each equipped with a model shelter-house and ten of them further fitted out with model brood nests. In twenty-four of these thirty model runways abode twenty-four model silver foxes, one to each yard at this autumn season—twenty-four silver foxes, pedigreed and registered—foxes whose lump value was something more than $7,400. Thanks to the balanced rations and meticulous care lavished on them, all twenty-four were in the pink of form. All twenty-four seemed as nearly contented as can a wild thing which no longer has the zest of gambling with death for its daily food and which is stared at with indecent closeness and frequency by dread humans. But the partners of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., failed to take note, among other things, of the uncanny genius certain foxes possess for sapping and mining; nor that some foxes are almost as deft at climbing as is a cinnamon bear. True, the average silver fox is neither a gifted burrower nor climber. But neither are such talents rare. For example, King Whitefoot II, in Number 8 run, could have given a mole useful hints in underground burrowing. Lady Pitchdark, the temperamental young vixen in Number 17 run, might wellnigh have qualified as the vulpine fly. Because neither of these costly specimens spent their time in sporadic demonstration of their arts, in the view of humans, those same humans did not suspect the accomplishments. Then came an ice-bright moonlit night in late November—a night to stir every quadruped’s blood to tingling life and to set humans to crouching over fireplaces. Ten minutes after Rance and Ethan Venner, the kennel partners, finished their perfunctory evening rounds of the yards, King Whitefoot II was blithely at work. Foxes and other burrowing beasts seek instinctively the corners or the edges of yards, when striving to dig a way out. Any student of their ways will tell you that. Wherefore, as in most fox-kennels, the corners and inner edges of the Stippled Silver yards were fringed with a half-yard of mesh-wire, laid flat on the ground. Whitefoot chose a spot six inches on the hither edge of a border-wire and began his tunnel. He did not waste strength by digging deep. He channelled a shallow tube, directly under the flat-laid wire. Indeed, the wire itself formed the top of his tunnel. The frost was not yet deep enough or hard enough to impede his work. Nor, luckily for him, did he have to circumnavigate any big underground rock.

When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox.They had visited the National Exhibition of silver foxes. They had spent days at successful fox farms, studying every detail of management and memorising the rigid diet-charts. They had committed to memory every fact and hint in Bulletin No. 1151 of the United States Department of Agriculture—issued for the help of novice breeders of silver foxes.They had mastered each and every available scrap of exact information concerning the physical welfare of captive silver foxes. But, for lack of half a lifetime’s close application to the theme, their knowledge of fox mentality and fox nature was nil.2Now one may raise chickens or hogs or even cattle, without taking greatly into account the inner workings of such animals’ brains. But no man yet has made a success of raising foxes or their fifth cousin, the collie, without spending more time in studying out the mental than the physical beast.On the kitchen wall of the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., was the printed dietary of silver foxes. On the one library shelf of the kennel was all the available literature on silver fox breeding, from government pamphlets to a three-volume monograph. In the four-acre space within the kennel enclosure were thirty model runways, twenty by twenty feet; each equipped with a model shelter-house and ten of them further fitted out with model brood nests.In twenty-four of these thirty model runways abode twenty-four model silver foxes, one to each yard at this autumn season—twenty-four silver foxes, pedigreed and registered—foxes whose lump value was something more than $7,400. Thanks to the balanced rations and meticulous care lavished on them, all twenty-four were in the pink of form.All twenty-four seemed as nearly contented as can a wild thing which no longer has the zest of gambling with death for its daily food and which is stared at with indecent closeness and frequency by dread humans.- Taken from "The Heart of a Dog" written by Albert Payson Terhune

If your child has advanced past "A is for Apple, B is for Balloon, and C is for Cow," you'll want to give them this alphabet book about art. Your child will explore actual art words, explained in rhymes and sidebars in prose, and shown in pictures of artwork by masters in the field. Here are the art words that are covered in this book:Abstract ArtBalanceCollageDrip PaintingExpressionismFolk ArtGraffiti•Hand Stencils (Cave Art)ImpressionismJunk ArtKinetic ArtLandscapeMovementNaïve ArtOne Line DrawingPortraitQuirky ArtRealismStill LifeTextureUrban LandscapeVerticalWPAPX-ray ArtYouth Art MonthZoomorphicUnfamiliar words are given a guide to pronunciation.The charming rhymes make it easy for your child to remember the concepts and facts.Each letter of the alphabet, and each art word, is shown in both uppercase and lowercase.For ages 5 through 12.This is Book 11 in Eve Heidi’s Alphabet Series. Open this book and enjoy!Buy now!

If your child has advanced past "A is for Apple, B is for Balloon, and C is for Cow," you'll want to give them this alphabet book about art. Your child will explore actual art words, explained in rhymes and sidebars in prose, and shown in pictures of artwork by masters in the field. Here are the art words that are covered in this book:Abstract ArtBalanceCollageDrip PaintingExpressionismFolk ArtGraffiti•Hand Stencils (Cave Art)ImpressionismJunk ArtKinetic ArtLandscapeMovementNaïve ArtOne Line DrawingPortraitQuirky ArtRealismStill LifeTextureUrban LandscapeVerticalWPAPX-ray ArtYouth Art MonthZoomorphicUnfamiliar words are given a guide to pronunciation.The charming rhymes make it easy for your child to remember the concepts and facts.Each letter of the alphabet, and each art word, is shown in both uppercase and lowercase.For ages 5 through 12.This is Book 11 in Eve Heidi’s Alphabet Series. Open this book and enjoy!Buy now!

How is this book unique? Illustrations includedOriginal & Unabridged EditionOne of the best books to readClassic historical fiction booksExtremely well formattedThis story collection, includes "Hearts and Crosses," "The Princess and the Puma," "Christmas by Injunction," and many more. This is a fantastic collection of western-themed stories, many feature the man's signature surprise endings. There are tales of cowpunchers, desperados and ranchers in love. Most explore happy times, though death and sorrow do pay an infrequent visit. More than once the folly of male/female relationships is explored with predictably humorous results.

How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedAbout Heart of the West by O. HenryThis story collection, includes "Hearts and Crosses," "The Princess and the Puma," "Christmas by Injunction," and many more. This is a fantastic collection of western-themed stories, many feature the man's signature surprise endings. There are tales of cowpunchers, desperados and ranchers in love. Most explore happy times, though death and sorrow do pay an infrequent visit. More than once the folly of male/female relationships is explored with predictably humorous results.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Heart of the West by O. Henry Several of the funniest and best stories by O. Henry appear in this book, which is made up of about twenty-five of his inimitable tales of Western life and types which have appeared at intervals in the magazines. These stories are the best of their kind since Bret Harte. Heart of the West by O. Henry is a collection of nineteen stories by famed writer O. Henry. Hearts and Crosses, The Ransom of Mack Telemachus, Friend The Handbook of Hymen, The Pimienta Pancakes Seats of the Haughty Hygeia at the Solito, An Afternoon Miracle, The Higher Abdication, Cupid à la Carte, The Caballero's Way, The Sphinx Apple, The Missing Chord, A Call Loan, The Princess and the Puma, The Indian Summer of Dry Valley, Johnson Christmas by Injunction, A Chaparral Prince, The Reformation of Calliope.