The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, and many others! Included are:
BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Sewell
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, by A.B. Paterson [poem]
CHU CHU, by Bret Harte
JOHN G., by Katherine Mayo
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS, by Jonathan Swift
HOW THE OLD HORSE WON THE BET, by Oliver Wendell Holmes [poem]
A HORSE'S TALE, by Mark Twain
THE TALKING HORSE, by F. Anstey
SAMUEL COWLES AND HIS HORSE ROYAL, by Eugene Field
A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY, by Ambrose Bierce
THE DUN HORSE, by George Bird Grinnell
The Enchanted Horse, by Amy Steedman
AT GALWAY RACES, by William Butler Yeats [poem]
A RIDE WITH A MAD HORSE IN A FREIGHT-CAR, by W.H.H. Murray
BUYING A HORSE, by William Dean Howells
SKIPPER: BEING THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BLUE-RIBBONER, by Sewell Ford
THE INSTINCT OF ANIMALS: HORSES, by Thomas Bingley
A NIGHT AMONG THE HORSES, by Djuna Barnes
HE WALKED AROUND THE HORSES, by H. Beam Piper
THE HORSE OF THE INVISIBLE, by William Hope Hodgson
MILES KEOGH'S HORSE, by John Hay [poem]
THE WAR HORSE OF ALEXANDER, by Plutarch, edited by Andrew Lang
HEADS AND TALES: THE HORSE, edited by Adam White
HEART BAR JOHNNY, by Mary Wickizer Burgess
LADY CLARE: THE STORY OF A HORSE, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
ZADIG: THE DOG AND THE HORSE, by Voltaire
MY FIRST HORSE SURGERY, by Mark E. Burgess
Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE BALLAD OF THE DROVER, by Henry Lawson [poem]
HORSE LATITUDES: RETURN TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS, by Robert Reginald