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The book is told from the standpoint of a poor household pet, a dog self-described by the first sentence of the story: "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian." The story begins with a description of the dog's life as a puppy and her separation from her mother, which to her was inexplicable.
[2] In contrast, David Robson in The Daily Telegraph wrote "There is such an elegant symmetry to the narrative that it is disappointing to report that the novel as a whole never catches fire. The flashbacks to 1975 should contextualise what is happening today, but Atkinson, like many a novelist before her, gets bogged down in tedious explanation.
"The Tinderbox" (Danish: Fyrtøjet) is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a soldier who acquires a magic tinderbox capable of summoning three powerful dogs to do his bidding. When the soldier has one of the dogs transport a sleeping princess to his room, he is sentenced to death but cunningly summons the dogs to save his life.
The caoineag (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʰɯːɲak]) is a female spirit in Scottish folklore and a type of Highland banshee, her name meaning "weeper".She is normally invisible and foretells death in her clan by lamenting in the night at a waterfall, stream or Loch, or in a glen or on a mountainside.
"Investigations of a Dog" (German: "Forschungen eines Hundes") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in 1922. It was published posthumously in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer ( Berlin , 1931). The first English translation by Willa and Edwin Muir was published by Martin Secker in London in 1933.
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Stories of My Dogs" is an eight-chapter novella by Leo Tolstoy published in 1888, translated to English by Nathan Haskell Dole. [1] It details the adventures of his two dogs, Bulka and Milton. It was republished in 1899 as part of the Complete Works of Tolstoy, edited by Isabel Florence Hapgood , [ 2 ] and this collection itself was again ...
Another heartwarming story emerged from Tampa, where a cat was rescued from the debris. Photographs released by Ryan Bass show a tortoiseshell cat emerging from a pile of rubble in Palmetto Beach ...