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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Book Group

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781408710227

RRP: £14.99

PAGES: 432

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 26, 2018

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Dogs: Stories and Poems

Mark Bryant

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 of all kinds on dogs by those who love them.There are poems from Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, William Cowper, Thomas Hardy, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns and Rupert Brooke; humorous pieces by Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ambrose Bierce and Jerome K. Jerome; and other delights from writers such as Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Gilbert White, H. D. Thoreau, Alexandre Dumas, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, the Brothers Grimm, Saki, Johann Wolfang von Goethe, D. H. Lawrence, Leigh Hunt, G. K. Chesterton, Louisa M. Alcott, Marco Polo, R. M. Ballantyne, J. M. Barrie, Benjamin Disraeli, Michel de Montaigne, W. M. Thackeray, Robert Louis Stevenson, O. Henry 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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Mark Bryant

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.