Buying a Horse (Registro nro. 64095)
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| control field | 23030 |
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| control field | UtSlPG |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Howells, William Dean, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1920 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Buying a Horse |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2007-10-14 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Produced by Julia Miller, Mary Meehan and the Online<br/>Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This<br/>file was produced from images generously made available<br/>by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Buying a Horse" by William Dean Howells is a humorous narrative that falls within the realm of social commentary, written in the late 19th century. The book explores the often comical and perplexing experience of purchasing a horse, reflecting on the complexities and quirks of human nature in the context of buying and dealing with animals. It serves as a critique of both the horse-trading industry and social interactions around trade and trust. The story follows a man's journey as he decides to buy a horse after moving to the countryside, where having one is both desirable and necessary. Initially naive and hopeful, he encounters various characters and dealers, each presenting their own flawed horses and dubious sales tactics. As his quest unfolds, he becomes increasingly cynical and frustrated, learning that purchasing a horse is not just about exchanging money for an animal—it involves navigating a web of deceit, expert jargon, and unexpected disappointment. Ultimately, he does find a horse named Frank, but not without a range of comedic mishaps and lessons learned about trust, ownership, and the nature of desires that reshapes his perspective on horse trading itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Note about original | Original publication data not identified |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Short stories |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Horses -- Fiction |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23030">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23030</a> |
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