All the Dogs of my Life
von Arnim, Elizabeth - by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Publication Date |
1936 |
Publisher |
William Heinemann, |
Binding |
Hardback |
Condition |
Reading copy only |
SKU |
22647 |
Notes |
Green cloth is heavily damaged to surface with a lot of colour loss. Binding is sound. Dust jacket is dust marked to cream background and gas a number of tiny chips and short closed tears. |
Description
Hardback. Fist edition. “I would like, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.” From Bijou, her very first dog, to Chunkie and Knobbie, her favourite, and last, canine companions, Elizabeth von Arnim takes us through her life in dogs. With a number of black and white photos of Elizabeth and her dogs.