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J FIC NES
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Hamilton (1972), 224 pages
Description
Nine stories featuring dragons by the famous author.
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LibraryThing member Blonde.Kimmie
I think this was a really good book! I had to read it for on of my classes! I loved it! Great story! The book also has a really good moral (lesson)! Check it out!!
LibraryThing member themulhern
Besides the stories in "The Book of Dragons" also contains "The Last Dragon". "The Last Dragon" is charming, wry, and feminist.
LibraryThing member ChrisRiesbeck
A wonderful collection of surprisingly modern stories for children and adults about dragons, full of humor and unexpected turns of events. It's to believe all but the last of these were published in one year, and that year was 1899. There's little in common between the dragons in each story, though
Two lines made me laugh out loud and show the humor that permeates these tales. In "The Dragon Tamers", a blacksmith and his family live in a long-abandoned castle with a dungeon and a crumbling stairway leading deeper. "Even the lords of the castle in the good old times had never know where those steps led to, but every now and then they would kick a prisoner down the steps in their light-hearted, hopeful way, and, sure enough, the prisoner never came back".
The other quote kicks of the last and weakest story, The Last of the Dragons". "Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motorized omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous."
Highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of authors such as Diana Wynne Jones.
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they are almost always more a pest than something scary. In one story, there is a plague of dragons, ranging from tiny insect-side lizards to the large classic fire-breathing behemoths. Several have iron scales, predating Swanwick's iron dragons by a century. Two lines made me laugh out loud and show the humor that permeates these tales. In "The Dragon Tamers", a blacksmith and his family live in a long-abandoned castle with a dungeon and a crumbling stairway leading deeper. "Even the lords of the castle in the good old times had never know where those steps led to, but every now and then they would kick a prisoner down the steps in their light-hearted, hopeful way, and, sure enough, the prisoner never came back".
The other quote kicks of the last and weakest story, The Last of the Dragons". "Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motorized omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous."
Highly recommended, especially if you're a fan of authors such as Diana Wynne Jones.
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Pages
224
ISBN
0241020344 / 9780241020340