The Last of the Dragons Clarence Biers Illustrator
by Clarence Biers
2020-04-23 20:09:13
The Last of the Dragons Clarence Biers Illustrator
by Clarence Biers
2020-04-23 20:09:13
The Last of the Dragons by E, Nesbit with illustrations by Clarence Biers. Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motor-omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous. But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and...
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The Last of the Dragons by E, Nesbit with illustrations by Clarence Biers. Of course you know that dragons were once as common as motor-omnibuses are now, and almost as dangerous. But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from. And at last there were no more dragons in France and no more dragons in Germany, or Spain, or Italy, or Russia. There were some left in China, and are still, but they are cold and bronzy, and there were never any, of course, in America. But the last real live dragon left was in England, and of course that was a very long time ago, before what you call English History began. This dragon lived in Cornwall in the big caves amidst the rocks, and a very fine dragon it was, quite seventy feet long from the tip of its fearful snout to the end of its terrible tail. It breathed fire and smoke, and rattled when it walked. This edition was first published by E. Benn in Five of Us and Madeline in 1925.
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