Headless Horseman, The - A Strange Tale of Texas

By Reid, Thomas Mayne

Book Id: WPLBN0002951160
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File Size: 650.85 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Headless Horseman, The - A Strange Tale of Texas
Author:	Reid, Thomas Mayne
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Adventure
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Headless Horseman, The - A Strange Tale of Texas
Historic Publication Date:	1865
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mayne Reid, B. T. (1865). Headless Horseman, The - A Strange Tale of Texas. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to cause both—something weird—something wanting! By heavens! it is the head! (Excerpt from the Prologue) The Headless Horseman is a novel by Mayne Reid written in 1865 or 1866 and is based on the author's adventures in the United States. The Headless Horseman or a Strange Tale of Texas was set in Texas and based on a South Texas folk tale. Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years - which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky. At 11, Nabokov even translated The Headless Horseman into French alexandrines.(Summary from Wikipedia)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction, Adventure