Dogs: A Literary Anthology [Hardcover]

Are you a cat person or a dog person? Well, here’s your chance to pick your side—and let your home library show it. Historically, cats, those lovers of laps have been more closely associated with books and the bookish, but dogs have left their pawprints all over the history of literature, too. This pair of volumes honors both of humanity’s favorite animals, celebrating their long-standing connections with that other great companion: the book.
            Interspersing beautifully reproduced, often amusing illustrations with selections from famous works by a wide range of authors—including Shakespeare, Dickens, Kipling, Poe, Twain, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Beatrix Potter, William Blake, Lord Byron, the Brothers Grimm, and many, many more—these two books are guaranteed to entertain, amuse, and enlighten any fan of our four-footed friends. Mixing familiar pieces with plenty of lesser-known discoveries,CatsandDogswill be a perennial favorite, a perfect, perfectly charming gift.

The Great Dog Family
Dodie Smith, fromThe Hundred and one Dalmatians
Eleanor Farjeon, Dog
E.V. Lucas, The Pekinese
Edward, Duke of York, Of Spaniels, fromMayster of Game
William Shakespeare, fromMacbeth
John Gay, The Pointer
Dame Juliana Berners, The Properties of a Good Greyhound, fromThe Boke of St Albans
R.J. Richardson, The Kerry Blue
Alexander Pope, Epigram
E.V. Lucas, Black Cocker Spaniels
William Cowper, The Lurcher, fromThe Task
Dorothy Margaret Stuart, King George’s Dalmatian AD 1822
Edward, Duke of York, Of Greyhounds and their Nature, fromMayster of Game
William Shakespeare, fromA Midsummer Night’s Dream
Geoffrey Chaucer, fromThe Book of the Duchess
F. Conquest, A Stern Story

Dogs at Work and PlalC-