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Dog spelled backwards : soulful writing by literary dog lovers

A collection of writing about dogs from both American and English fiction and nonfiction, prose, and poetry including O. Henry's "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog," Rudyard Kipling's "The Power of the Dog," and Stephen Collins Foster's "Old Dog Tray."
Print Book, English, 2007
St. Martin's Press, New York, 2007
Literature
xviii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780312281793, 031228179X
123029494
Halfway to heaven : the story of the St. Bernard / Ruth Adams Knight
The coming of Riquet / Anatole France
John Scott's affectionate pup / Ellis Parker Butler
Memoirs of a yellow dog / O. Henry
from A midsummer night's dream / William Shakespeare
A tribute to the dog / George Graham Vest
Bum: a Brooklyn dog / Sarah Noble Ives
My buddy / Murray Weinstock
For the love of a man / Jack London
Stop kicking my dog around / Anonymous
Remarkable dog / Mark Twain
Gulliver the Great / Walter A. Dyer
Old dog Tray / Stephen Collins Foster
The Westminster Kennel Club / Charles S. Pelham-Clinton
Four on the floor ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and a spaniel named Flush / Mordecai Siegal
To Flush, my dog ; Flush or Faunus / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
from Flush: a biography: the back bedroom / Virginia Woolf
To my dog / John Galsworthy
from A midsummer's night dream / William Shakespeare
The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis
Angel on a leash / Murray Weinstock
Three's company / Steve Dale
When I get to heaven: questions from an anxious dog ; Old Blue / Anonymous
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a hostage ; The power of the dog / Rudyard Kipling
The Checkers affair: a cocker spaniel, a speech, and the political survival of Richard M. Nixon ; Another speech, another dog ; Dog names of the great and not so great / Mordecai Siegal
The soul of Caliban / Emma-Lindsay Squier
The barking dog / Hsu Yun
For Ashley Whippet: a testimonial / Mordecai Siegal
A dog's best friend / Anonymous
A prayer for animals / Albert Schweitzer
from Peter Pan: Peter breaks through, and The Shadow / J.M. Barrie
That spot / Jack London
Underdog / Mordecai Siegal
Dandy: the story of a dog / W.H. Hudson
The bonding / Roger Caras
Going home / Stephen and Patti Thompson
To my dog / John Galsworthy
Enter Tarzan / Mordecai Siegal
Erica's song / Arlene Klein
from Old dogs, old friends: enjoying your older dog: memories are forever, and grow old with me / Bonnie Wilcox and Chris Walkowicz