The Difficulty of Being a Dog

The Difficulty of Being a Dog
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 0226308278
ISBN-13 : 9780226308272
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Book Synopsis The Difficulty of Being a Dog by : Roger Grenier

Download or read book The Difficulty of Being a Dog written by Roger Grenier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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