The Difficulty of Being a Dog

The Difficulty of Being a Dog
Author: Roger Grenier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2000-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226308272


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Forty-three vignettes, in which the author visits the great dogs of history and legend, beginning at the beginning with Ulysses and his dog, Argos; on to Virginia Woolf and her dog, Flush; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel; André Gide; Freud's dog, Lün; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, Fala; Michael and Jerry, heroes of Jack London's novels; Napoleon's dog; and the dogs collected and deported from the city of Constantinople in 1910, sent to a desert island without food and water.


The Difficulty of Being a Dog
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Roger Grenier
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Forty-three vignettes, in which the author visits the great dogs of history and legend, beginning at the beginning with Ulysses and his dog, Argos; on to Virgin
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Pages: 346
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