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Nature, Gardens & Animals
My household of pets
Théophile Gautier and Susan Coolidge
60 pages~1 hr 12 min read9 chapters$4.99
Theophile Gautier shared his Paris home with a white dynasty of cats and a black one, with dogs, chameleons, lizards, magpies and horses, and he loved them like family. This warm, witty menagerie memoir gives each creature its character and its due. A French poet's tenderness for the animals underfoot. Open the door to his crowded household.
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Inside this book
9 chapters
- 1MY Household of Pets.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4CHAPTER I. OLD TIMES.
- 5CHAPTER II. THE WHITE DYNASTY.
- 6CHAPTER III. THE BLACK DYNASTY.
- 7CHAPTER IV. OUR DOGS.
- 8CHAPTER V. CHAMELEONS, LIZARDS, AND MAGPIES.
- 9CHAPTER VI. HORSES.
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