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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

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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

"By-and-by he began to wander." PAGE 30

"The dragon ran after her." PAGE 36

The Deliverers of Their Country PAGE 39

"The largest elephant in the zoo was carried off." PAGE 44

"He rose into the air, rattling like a third-class
carriage."