Flush - Virginia Woolf
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Autobiography & Biographies
One of the most famous of all literary dogs, Flush was the golden cocker spaniel belonging to Elizabeth Barrett. In this charming and heartfelt biography, Virginia Woolf tells his story: his early days as Miss Mitfords puppy running across the fields in wild abandon and fathering another, the years spent in his invalid mistress bedroom in Wimpole Street, the terror of his kidnap by a Whitechapel gang, the excitement of Miss Barretts relationship with Robert Browning, and a subsequent very different and much happier life in Italy., Flush, already immortalised in poetry, is vividly brought to life in this humorous, compassionate yet unsentimental portrayal of a dogs loves, fears, jealousies, and reconciliations. This is a triumph of imaginative, sympathetic and remarkably accessible writing.
