A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs
A Wonderful and Witty Homage to Man's Most Faithful Friend
$24.07
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2022
Summary
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.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780725178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780725175 |
| Author: | Peter J. Conradi |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Short Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Peter J. Conradi
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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