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A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs
A Wonderful and Witty Homage to Man's Most Faithful Friend
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A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man's most faithful friend.
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Tin Tin's Snowy, Odysseus's Argos, Darwin's Polly, Mary Queen of Scots's 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Flush... Behind every great man or woman is a dog.
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs. Embracing the intriguing and the provocative, the essential and the trivial, Peter J. Conradi forays into history, literature and personal anecdotes to unearth a treasure trove of canine characters.
Discover the stories behind Karl Marx's and his daughter's Dogberry Club; the lapdogs who were secreted in first-class cabins on the Titanic and how they survived; Edinburgh's Greyfriars Bobby who stayed by his master's grave for 14 years; and the one undisputed fact about Shakespeare - his singular dislike for dogs.
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a wonderful and witty homage to man's most faithful friend.
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ISBN: 9781780725178
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 November 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Short Books Ltd
Illustration: Text with 24 b/w line illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Peter J Conradi is an author and journalist, known as the official biographer of Iris Murdoch, whose essays and letters he also collected and edited, in separate volumes. He is the author of many books including: A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs (2019), Family Business: A Memoir (2019), and A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson (2012). He has written or reviewed for the TLS, New Statesman, FT, Spectator, Independent and The Guardian. Conradi has co-edited since 2007 the Transactions of the Radnorshire Society and is a Trustee of the Bleddfa Centre for the Creative Spirit.
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