Animals in literature
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The Second Jungle Book
Animal Farm
Hare
Figuring animals
Animals in Roman life and art
Holy and noble beasts
The Art of Babar
Dumb Beasts and Dead Philosophers
The great ideas today, 1968
Bestiaries and their users in the Middle Ages
Zoopoetics
Animal Families of the Wild
Animal characters
Animal Farm
Spider
Victorian animal dreams
Beatrix
Samuel Johnson's menagerie
Platero y yo
The ultimate Peter Rabbit
Animal farm
My favourite animal stories
George Orwell's Animal farm
Readings on Animal farm
The animal-lore of Shakespeare's time
Those Who Make Us
The illustrated Marguerite Henry
Beatrix Potter
Curiosities of natural history
Faber Book of Beasts
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