The Difficulty of Being a Dog
| Author | : Roger Grenier |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2000-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0226308278 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780226308272 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (272 Downloads) |
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.
