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The history of Pompey the little or, The life and adventures of a lap-dog

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  • Author: Coventry, Francis
    Contributor: Hudson, Nicholas
    Date:
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    2011
    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • Francis Coventry: a brief chronology
    • A note on the text
    • The history of Pompey the little, or, The life and adventures of a lap-dog
    • Appendix A: Omitted section from book II, chapters VI-VII in the third edition
    • Appendix B: From anonymous, The life and adventures of a cat (1760)
    • Appendix C: Anonymous, An essay on the new species of writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751)
    • Appendix D: Poems by Francis Coventry. Penshurst (1750) ; To the Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Esq. in Wales (1755)
    • Appendix E: Eighteenth-century discusions of animals. 1. Pierre Bayle, "Rorarius," from The dictionary historical and critical (1696) ; Samuel Johnson, The idler, no. 24 (1758) ; From anonymous, A dissertation on Mr. Hogarth's ... The four stages of cruelty (1751).
    Subject(s): Coventry, Francis | Dogs | Fiction
    Original Publisher: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2008
    Language(s): English