'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing
collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)
loo-side read.' Jeremy Nicholas A wonderful selection of writing on
dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to
twentieth-century New York From beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery,
from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's adored lap-dog Flush to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's terrifying Hound of the Baskervilles, and
encompassing odes, fables, stories, songs, nursery rhymes and more,
Mark Bryant has compiled a wonderfully evocative collection of
writing on all kinds of dogs by all kinds of authors. Included are
poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope,
Jonathan Swift, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,
Robert Burns and more; humorous pieces by Lewis Carroll, Edward
Lear, Ambrose Bierce and Jerome K. Jerome; and other delights from
writers as varied as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Christina
Rossetti, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, the Brothers Grimm, Edith
Wharton, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Louisa M. Alcott, Gertrude
Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Eliot
and Jack London, amongst others. Covering every genre, from humour
and fantasy to romance and horror, and drawn from every part of the
world, these stories, poems and excerpts from essays, letters,
diaries and journals provide a collection to delight any dog-lover.
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