Horses in literature

fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm

Russian fairy tale

"Kholstomer" (), also translated as "Strider", is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that has been referred to as "one of the most striking stories in Russian literature". It was started in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse". The story exploits the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions.

Aesop's fable

Norse fairy tale

Sivko-Burko () is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) collected by folklorist Alexandr Afanasyev in his three-volume compilation Russian Fairy Tales. The tale is a local form in Slavdom of tale type ATU 530, "The Princess on the Glass Mountain", wherein the hero has to jump higher and reach a tower or terem, instead of climbing up a steep and slippery mountain made entirely of glass.

Ukrainian fairy tale

book by Ernest Thompson Seton