The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics) Read online

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  ISBN: 978-0-141-39561-6

  * In June 1914, Maurice Maeterlinck published a long essay called ‘The Thinking Horses of Elberfeld’, about the then widely reported efforts of one Karl Krall to train animals in quasi-human thinking and feeling.