Dogs: Stories and Poems - Couverture rigide

Bryant, Dr Mark

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1408710234 ISBN 13 : 9781408710234

Editeur : Robinson, 2018

Synopsis

A wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from Plato to Virginia Woolf, and from ancient Egypt to twentieth-century New York

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Bryant has written/compiled a number of books on pets including It's a Dog's Life: A Canine Cartoon Collection (1991, Foreword by Jilly Cooper) - featuring the best of the entries for the Dog Cartoonist of the Year Awards - which was published to mark the centenary of the National Canine Defence League (now the Dogs Trust), with all royalties going to the charity. Other books include The Church Cat: Clerical Cats in Stories and Verse (1997); Cat Tales for Christmas (1993); The Artful Cat: A Tribute with 60 Portraits (1991); The World's Greatest Cat Cartoons (1993); The Complete Lexicat: A Cat Name Companion (1992); CATS: An Anthology of Stories and Poems (2016) and Casanova's Parrot and Other Tales of the Famous and Their Pets (2002). In addition, he is the author of Constable: A Brief History of Britain's Oldest Independent Publisher (2010) and other books. His family's much-loved canine companions have included a golden retriever and a short-haired terrier. He lives in London.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 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 Times

Praise 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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robinson
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408710234
• ISBN 13: 9781408710234
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Isacco srl; http://www.isacco.it; ; Via L. Pirandello, 3; Telgate; 24060; Italie