by Gerald Durrell · Riverside S.A.C. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478443734
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«Las mejores historias sobre perros» is the anthology of stories selected by Gerald Durrell, in paperback (234 pages, in Spanish).
Anthology of short stories, selected by Gerald Durrell, about the relationship between humans and dogs in literature. Authors such as Chesterton, Walpole, Virginia Woolf, Kipling and Jack London show very different perspectives: epic, bitter fable, humour and lyricism, as in the portrait of Flush, the dog of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Original title: «Best Dog Stories». Translation by Javier Alfaya. Collection Las Tres Edades (no. 56).
For lovers of dogs and classic short fiction, with authors of very different registers.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
