The Fall of Ulysses: An Elephant Story by Charles Dwight Willard
Read now or download (free!)
| Choose how to read this book | Url | Size | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read online (web) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.html.images | 68 kB | ||||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.epub3.images | 891 kB | ||||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.epub.images | 890 kB | ||||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.epub.noimages | 92 kB | ||||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.kf8.images | 926 kB | ||||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.kindle.images | 873 kB | ||||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61624.txt.utf-8 | 54 kB | ||||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61624/pg61624-h.zip | 863 kB | ||||
| There may be more files related to this item. | ||||||
About this eBook
| Author | Willard, Charles Dwight, 1866-1914 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Ver Beck, Frank, 1858-1933 |
| LoC No. | 12016894 |
| Title | The Fall of Ulysses: An Elephant Story |
| Note | Reading ease score: 67.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by Richard Tonsing, deaurider, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Summary | "The Fall of Ulysses: An Elephant Story" by Charles Dwight Willard is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative centers around the eccentric journey of a man who attempts to teach an elephant named Ulysses to read and write. This exploration serves as a delightful examination of intelligence, communication, and the relationship between humans and animals. The story unfolds as the protagonist, filled with ambition and naivety, embarks on a mission to educate Ulysses, believing that patience and care can elevate an elephant's intellect. As time passes, Ulysses not only learns language and communication but also begins to surpass the educational limitations of his human counterpart. Their bond transforms from master and servant into a complex relationship marked by the elephant's emerging superiority in knowledge and intellect. The climax of the tale arrives when Ulysses, having gained extensive knowledge from the reading of several complex texts, challenges his master's authority, leading to an unexpected tragic conclusion that highlights themes of ambition, hubris, and the wonders of intelligence—whether human or animal. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | Education -- Fiction |
| Subject | British -- India -- Fiction |
| Subject | Human-animal relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Elephants -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 61624 |
| Release Date | Mar 17, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 78 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |
