A Lame Dog's Diary - Softcover

Macnaughtan, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153720341X ISBN 13: 9781537203416

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The "Lame Dog" is not a dog at all, but a soldier who at Magersfontein was shot in the legs. Slowly recovering at home from his injuries, he finally adopts the device of a bewitching young widow and starts a diary.

"Few bits of contemporaneous literature have shown so delightful and humorous a point of view." -Chicago Evening Post

"A readable, human and humorous document. The diary is very well written." -New York Evening Post

"Would make not only the proverbial cat laugh, but anything living that has a sense of humor." -Evening Standard

"Stories of humor and character....This diary tells what she saw, heard, and did in Belgium." -New Outlook

"Reveals rare qualities of mirth, tenderness and insight. All the foibles, all the absurdities of a quiet country neighborhood are set before us, and laughter is irresistible, as irresistible as affection for the little company of people presented." -The Academy

"Simple and disarmingly unpretentious....The journal of a young officer, wounded in South Africa, trying as best he can to adjust himself to a life of crutches and invalidism.....In trusting the young man to tell his story, the author has avoided all the pitfalls which usually beset narratives in the first person. Hugo manages to let you know that he is a pleasant fellow: you see his type plainly, without any indecent self-laudation on his part. Although he merely serves as a mirror to show the whimsies of a village as dull as any in Miss Austen, you take an interest in his own quiet love affair, if only because he is so agreeable a person, and you proceed in the happiest frame of mind to follow his thread of a story. If you put down the book offering up prayers of thankfulness at not being condemned to live in a moribund English hamlet, you also hope to have many more glimpses of it, through the eyes of so competent a guide as S. Macnaughtan." -The Atlantic Monthly

About this title

About the Author:

Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (26 October 1864 – 24 July 1916) was a Scottish novelist. During the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with the Red Cross Society and was sent to Russia and eventually Armenia. She wrote extensively about the plight of the Armenian refugees of the Armenian Genocide. (Wikipedia)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 153720341X
• ISBN 13: 9781537203416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230