Classic Dog Stories - by Various (Hardcover)

About the Book

An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of stories about man's best friend.

Book Synopsis

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

From the grit of a frontier man's dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they're all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers everywhere.

In this beautiful collection, dogs of all kinds are brought to life on the page. Working dogs, dogs who are not treated well by humans, dogs who save lives in many different ways and the funny side of these treasured animals leap and bound on the page from writers such as Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf and Jerome K. Jerome.

About the Author

Engaging stories about dogs from Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Albert Payson Terhune, W. H. Hudson, O Henry, Charlotte Brontë, Damon Runyon, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Jerome K Jerome, Mary Lee Wilkins Freeman, Anton Chekov, John Muir, F. Anstey and J.R. Ackerley.