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by Alfred Ollivant; Lydia Davis; Marguerite Kirmse (Illustrator)


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Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was an English novelist best known for his first book, the children’s classic Bob, Son of Battle. Born in Nuthurst, Sussex, he became an author after a horse-riding injury ended his brief military career. In addition to Bob, Son of Battle and its sequel, Danny, Ollivant wrote roughly a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical epics. He was also a short-story contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Evening Transcript.
 
Lydia Davis is the author of several works of fiction, including Break It Down, The End of the Story, and Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis was published as a single volume in 2009.

Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954) was a British illustrator known for her etchings of animals, especially dogs. She published two books of canine drawings: Dogs (1930) and her magnum opus, Dogs in the Field (1935).

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  • Title Alfred Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle: The Last Gray Dog of Kenmuir
  • Author Alfred Ollivant; Lydia Davis; Marguerite Kirmse (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books
  • Date 2014-08-19
  • ISBN 9781590177297 / 1590177290
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 5.7 x 1.05 in (22.35 x 14.48 x 2.67 cm)
  • Ages 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 840
  • Library of Congress subjects Dogs, Great Britain - History - Victoria, 1837-1901
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013050865
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Probably the greatest dog story ever written, and one you will love as long as you live.” —Life
 
“The greatest dog story I ever read: it is like Hamlet with Hamlet left out, all the more noticeable because the Great Dane is included.” —William Lyon Phelps

Citations

  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2015, Page 79
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2014, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 01/01/2015, Page 63

About the author

Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) was born in Old Charlton, Kent, the son of a colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery. Shortly after he graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, intending to pursue a career in the army, he was thrown from his horse and seriously injured. While beginning his recuperation from the accident (he was to remain under his doctors' care for the next fourteen years), he wrote Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir (known in the United States as Bob, Son of Battle), which was a best seller both in the United Kingdom and the United States when it came out in 1898. Ollivant would go on to publish fourteen more novels, as well as various occasional essays, poems, and other works, including, during the First World War, a series of articles describing wartime life in England for an American audience.

Marguerite Kirmse (1885-1954) was born in Bournesmouth, England. She emigrated to the United States as an accomplished harpist in order to continue her musical education, but instead embarked on a highly successful career as an illustrator. She is best known for her drawings of dogs, including those in Lassie, Come-Home by Eric Knight.

Lydia Davis is the author of seven collections of stories, including Break It Down, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, and, most recently, Can't and Won't, as well as one novel, The End of the Story. Her Collected Stories were published as a single volume in 2009, and in 2013 she was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for the Short Story, as well as the Man Booker International Prize. She is also the translator of many books from the French, most notably Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

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