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RBarzellato - The book I read (tooth and claw)
by RBarzellato - (2010-05-16)
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TITLE OF THE BOOK: Thoot and Claw

NOVELIST: Saki

PUBLISHING HOUSE: Oxford Bookworms

GRADE: stage 3


There are 5 stories.


Sredni Vashtar

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting: In a shed of Conradin's aunt's house

Topic: The furret that kill the aunt

Theme: The hatred of the aunt

Characters: Conradin (He is 10 years old and he is often ill) the aunt (don't love Conradin), Sredni Vashtar (a furret that Conradin consider a god) and a chicken


The story teller

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting: In a train

Topic: The story of Bertha

Theme: The skill of the bachelor to tell stories

Characters: 3 children, the aunt of the children, Bachelor, Bertha


Gabriel Ernest

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting: In a wood and in the Van Cheele's house

Topic: The boy that become a werewolf

Theme: The werewolf's survival

Characters: Cunningham, Van Cheele, a wild boy (the werewolf),Van Cheele's aunt, Van Cheele's wife, little Jack (the child that is killed)


Tobermory

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting: Blemley's house

Topic: The speaking cat

Theme: The cat's intelligence that drive people mad

Characters: Mr Appin (the man that taught the cat to speak), Tobermory (the cat), Lady Blemley, Sir Wirfrid, Mavis Pellington, Mrs Cornett, Agnes Resker


The She Wolf

Time: The time isn't specified

Setting: Mary Hampton's house

Topic: The transformation of Louisa

Theme: The man who transform people in animal

Characters: Louisa (the woman that become a she-wolf), Leonard Bilsiter, Cecilia Scrops, Mrs Hampton