Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue is a novel by Canadian writer André Alexis. Published by Coach House Books in 2015, the novel was the winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize [ 1 ] and the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize , [ 2 ] as well as the 2017 edition of Canada Reads .
As in Adams' debut novel, Watership Down (1972), the animal characters in The Plague Dogs are anthropomorphised. The Plague Dogs features location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author. The conclusion of the book involves two real-life characters, Adams' long-time friend Ronald Lockley, and the world-famous naturalist Sir ...
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.
Before his acting career took off, he even earned a master’s degree in English Literature from Yale University, and was at work on his PhD when he abandoned his studies to pursue life on the screen.
Dog who was the only witness to his owner's suicide. Her husband attempts to find out why she committed suicide by teaching the dog to communicate by talking. U.S. book title is The Dogs of Babel. Martha: Martha Speaks: Susan Meddaugh: Main protagonist, Martha is a talking dog that was born an energetic stray and was put in the dog pound as a ...
The book was born from the "simple realization" New York City-based Friedman had after studying dogs and their people for decades, a press release shares "Dogs make people’s lives better by ...
The Dogs of Babel (also known as Lorelei's Secret in the UK) is the debut novel of Carolyn Parkhurst. It was one of The New York Times Notable Fiction & Poetry books of 2003. The novel became a best-seller. [1] The Dogs of Babel was the first book that Parkhurst wrote; it was not the first novel that Parkhurst envisioned. [2]
"Epitaph to a Dog" (also sometimes referred to as "Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog , Boatswain, who had just died of rabies .