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The Book of Dragons, by Edith Nesbit
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Title: The Book of Dragons
Author: Edith Nesbit
Illustrator: H. R. Millar H. Granville Fell
Release Date: November 29, 2007 [EBook #23661]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: THE BOOK OF DRAGONS]
The Book of DRAGONS
E. Nesbit
With illustrations by H. R. Millar
Decorations by H. Granville Fell
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. Mineola, New York
Contents
PAGE
I. The Book of Beasts 1
II. Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger 19
III. The Deliverers of Their Country 39
IV. The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told 57
V. The Island of the Nine Whirlpools 79
VI. The Dragon Tamers 99
VII. The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold 119
VIII. Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice 139
List of Illustrations
The Book of Dragons frontispiece
The Book of Beasts PAGE 1
"The dragon flew away across the garden." PAGE 9
"The Manticora took refuge in the General Post Office." PAGE 14
Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger PAGE 19
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