A gorgeous Vintage Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's lively, witty and insightful 'biography' of the cocker spaniel Flush, loyal companion to nineteenth century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on 28 March 1941 she committed suicide.
A most triumphant trespassing of human imagination into dog
sensibilities... The result is a book of irresistible grace and
charm
*Spectator*
Flush is an afternoon's delight for dog-loving readers. It's wit
and whimsy and sniffing, snuffling playfulness will amuse anyone
who's ever known a spaniel. Woolf's literary underdog is a canine
classic.
*Guardian*
A masterpiece... It is not fiction because it has the substance,
the reality of truth. It is not biography because it has the
freedom, the artistry of fiction
*New York Herald Tribune Books*
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