Dogs

A wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New YorkFrom beautiful lyrics to madcap waggery, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's adored lap-dog Flush to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's terrifying Hounds 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 William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns and more; humorous pieces by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and Jerome K. Jerome; and other delights from writers as varied as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, Louisa M. Alcott, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Louis Stevenson and George Eliot, amongst others. Covering every genre, from humour and fantasy to romance and horror, this is a collection to delight any dog-lover. Praise for It's a Dog's Life'Very funny but often moving' - Jilly Cooper'One of my favourites' - Harry Enfield, Sunday TimesPraise for Casanova's Parrot'A must-have gift book for all animal lovers and pet owners' - Books Magazine'Compulsively readable . . . a book to dip into during dark evenings' - Mail on Sunday