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The Black Stallion by Walter Farley | |
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About 47 pages (14,132 words) in 7 products |
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Walter Farley | | Birth Date: |
June 26, 1915 | | Death Date: |
October 16, 1989 | | Place of Birth: |
Syracuse, New York | | Place of Death: |
Sarasota, Florida | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Copy writer, Horse breeder |
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 Biography of Walter (Lorimer) Farley
4515 words, approx. 15.1 pages
 Walter Lorimer Farley created the Black Stallion, one of the most famous real or fictional horses of all time, over forty years ago, and that horse is still running at the head of the race. The original Black Stallion book appeared in 1941 and has been f... summary from source:
 Biography of Walter Farley
2032 words, approx. 6.8 pages
At twenty-six, author Walter Farley hit on a winning formula for juvenile fiction. "Farley's novels," wrote A. B. Emrys in the Journal of Popular Culture, "make the best of both romantic escapes and educational insider portraits of horse training and rac...
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 The Black Stallion Information
1,655 words, approx. 6 pages
 The Black Stallion,, known as "the Black" or "Shêtân", is the title character from author Walter Farley's bestselling series about the wild stallion and his young friend Alec Ramsay. The series chronicles the story of the prize stallion of an Arab...
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 Naval Aviation News Hc-4 Black Stallions Deactivated
01/01/2008: 1,301 words, approx. 4 pages Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 was deactivated on 30 September 2007 after 24 years of service. Cdr. Robert Buckingham was HC-4's last CO. A ceremony held in the squadron's honor on 28 September at NAS Norfolk, Va., was attended by many former and... summary from source:
Kidsworld Magazine Black stallion.
09/22/1998: 106 words, approx. 1 pages by Walter Farley Although it was first published in 1941, The Black Stallion is so popular with kids right now that the book was reissued in October with the new cover, shown here (the copies in your library may look different). ...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
310 words, approx. 1 pages
Shipwreck off the Spanish coast: a boy and an untamed Arab stallion the sole survivors. This promising situation, led up to by a logical sequence of events, is used in [The Black Stallion,] an adventure story whose outsize plot is curbed by a firm attention to the relationship between the hero, Alec Ramsay, an American high-school boy, and the stallion who comes to be known as the Black. (p. 3406) [The subsequent books in the Black Stallion series] are essentially tales of a horse and its fortunes and at ti... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Marjorie Burger
138 words, approx. 1 pages
Since the appearance in 1941 of Walter Farley's first book, "The Black Stallion," readers have been clamoring for more and more of his thrilling horse tales. ["The Black Stallion's Filly"] is certain to run nose to nose in popularity with its predecessors. The black stallion's first daughter, Black Minx, pulls many a trick on her trainer and owner…. [In] the five months between her purchase and the Kentucky Derby, they succeed in changing her from a sp... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Dorotha Dowson
102 words, approx. 1 pages
This sequel to the very popular book The Black Stallion is not remarkable in style, plot or characterization, yet [The Black Stallion Returns] has pace and verve and holds the reader's interest throughout. Central theme, the love of Alec for his horse, has all the elements of sure-fire popularity with young people twelve and over. Dorotha Dawson, "New Books Appraised: 'The Black Stallion Returns'," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, November 1...
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