Dog Spelled Backwards: Soulful Writing by Literary Dog LoversMacmillan, 7 aug. 2007 - 304 sidor "To err is human, to forgive canine." --Anonymous A classic collection of the best of canine literature celebrating the soulful nature of dogs In Dog Spelled Backwards, author Mordecai Siegal presents a warm, wise, witty and wonderful collection of writing about the divine nature of dogs from the best of American and English literature and song. Siegal's choices for this compilation are rich and colorful, and contain some of the most knowing and astute writing about dogs ever published. Selections from both fiction and nonfiction, prose and poetry include: --"Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" by O. Henry --"My Buddy" by Murray Weinstock --"Old Dog Tray" by Stephen Collins Foster --"To Flush, My Dog" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning --"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London --"The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling --"Three's Company" by Steve Dale A trusted and respected voice for three decades, Mordecai Siegal has given pet owners advice on selecting, training and caring for the animals in their lives in more than thirty books. Here Siegal has moved from the practical to the pleasurable, writing and compiling a tribute destined to become a classic. Dog-lovers and literature-lovers alike will welcome Dog Spelled Backwards as a gift of a book to help them understand that sometimes dogs are like furry angels. All that's missing are the wings and the feathers. |
Innehåll
poetry in motion | 105 |
the world according to dogs | 125 |
love unleashed | 169 |
god is coming look busy | 201 |
litterature | 223 |
heavenly days | 253 |
Memories Are Forever and Grow Old with | 273 |
Copyright Acknowledgments 281 | |
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Dog Spelled Backwards: Soulful Writing by Literary Dog Lovers Mordecai Siegal Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
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Amelie American Kennel Club Angélique animal Arlene Klein Ashley Whippet asked baby bark Barrett Barry began Bergeret blue Bonnie Wilcox Buck Caliban canine champions Chaser Chris Walkowicz Darling dog's door Elizabeth Barrett Browning eyes Fala father fight Flush Gallagher Garm George Graham Vest Gulliver hand head heard heart Hour Magazine howled Hsu Yun Jimmy Jocks Kasauli Kennel Club Kittery knew laughed legs Leon Suprenon licking live looked love that dog Mark Twain Martigny Master Miss Dorothy Mordecai Siegal mother never night Nixon Nolan nose old dog Patti Thompson pulled puppy raft Reprinted by permission Riquet says side sleep smiled snow soul Spot Stephen Thompson Steve stood story street tail Tarzan teeth tell thing Thornton thought told took turned Vixen walk Wendy Wyndham