Dog stories
By: edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Series: Everyman's pocket classics; Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780307593979; 9781841596068
Subjects: American Short stories; English Short stories; Dogs; Fiction
Description: A collection of tales celebrating "man's best friend" as honored by authors from the past two centuries includes Rudyard Kipling's "Garm," Tobias Wolff's "Her Dog," and O. Henry's "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog."
Table of contents: title: Memoirs of a yellow dog  -- O. Henry; title: Ava's apartment  -- Jonathan Lethem; title: Garm, a hostage  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The emissary  -- Ray Bradbury; title: The mixer  -- P.G. Wodehouse; title: There I was, stuck with Bubsy  -- Patricia Highsmith; title: A dog's tale  -- Mark Twain; title: Josephine has her day  -- James Thurber; title: Kashtanka  -- Anton Chekhov; title: The oracle of the dog  -- G.K. Chesterton; title: Seeing eye  -- Brad Watson; title: Her dog  -- Tobias Wolff; title: Sir Henry  -- Lydia Millet; title: Barking man  -- Madison Smartt Bell; title: A yellow dog  -- Bret Harte; title: The story of two dogs  -- Doris Lessing; title: The hermit's story  -- Rick Bass; title: Flight  -- Thomas McGuane; title: My lord you  -- James Salter; title: Black dog -- Penelope Lively.