Only the Animals (27 page)

Died 1915, France

Red Peter's Little Lady

Soul of Chimpanzee

Died 1917, Germany

Hundstage

Soul of Dog

Died 1941, Poland

Somewhere Along the Line the Pearl Would Be Handed to Me

Soul of Mussel

Died 1941, United States of America

Plautus: A Memoir of My Years on Earth and Last Days in Space

Soul of Tortoise

Died 1968, Space

I, the Elephant, Wrote This

Soul of Elephant

Died 1987, Mozambique

Telling Fairy Tales

Soul of Bear

Died 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina

A Letter to Sylvia Plath

Soul of Dolphin

Died 2003, Iraq

Psittacophile

Soul of Parrot

Died 2006, Lebanon

Acknowledgements

A Note About the Author

Also by Ceridwen Dovey

Copyright

 

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Copyright © 2014 by Ceridwen Dovey

Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Teresa Dovey

All rights reserved

Originally published in 2014 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

 

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reproduce the extract in “A Letter to Sylvia Plath” from
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
by Douglas Adams, copyright © 1979, reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of Douglas Adams.

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dovey, Ceridwen.

    [Short stories. Selections]

    Only the animals: stories / Ceridwen Dovey. — First American edition.

        pages; cm

    ISBN 978-0-374-22663-3 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71306-5 (e-book)

    1.  Animals—Psychological aspects—Fiction.   2.  Human–animal relationships—Fiction.   3.  Anthropomorphism—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PR9369.4.D68A6 2015

823'.92—dc23

2014049062

 

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