Throughout the centuries dogs have played their part in literature leaving their paw prints in novels, short stories, poems, plays, fables...Sometimes they are the heroes, sometimes they play a supporting role and sometimes merely an extra looking in from the wings. No matter what, we love to read about them and no doubt, they love us to read how they fare on the stage of world literature. The following list is by no means complete. We hope to add to it in the future.

Richard Adams:

  • The Plague Dogs.

Aesop:

  • The Dog And The Cook.
  • The Dog And The Hare.
  • The Dog And The Oyster.
  • The Dog In The Manger.
  • The Dog And The Shadow.
  • The Dog And The Fox.
  • The Dog And The Lapdog
  • The Brazier And His Dog

Hans Christian Anderson:

  • Das Feuerzeug.

J.M. Barry:

  • Peter Pan.

L. Frank Baum:

  • The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.

Charlotte Bronte:

  • Jane Eyre.

Emily Bronte:

  • Wuthering Height.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning:

  • To Flush, My Dog.

Mikhail Bulgakov:

  • The Master And Margarita.

Miguel Cervantes:

  • The Dogs' Colloquy. (Novellas exemplares)

Colette:

  • Dialogues de Bêtes.

Stephen Crane:

  • The Dark Brown Dog.

Kiran Desai

  • The Inheritance of Loss.

Charles Dickens:

  • David Copperfield.
  • The Curiosity Shop.

Fyodor Dostoievsky:

  • Memoirs From The House Of The Dead.

Arthur Conan Doyle:

  • The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

Friedrich Duerrenmatt:

  • Der Hund.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

  • Krambambuli.
  • Die Sptzin.

Gustave Flaubert:

  • Madame Bovary.

Jean de La Fontaine:

  • Le Loup et le Chien.
  • Le Chien qui lâche sa proie pour l'homme.
  • Le chien qui porte a son cou le diné de son martre.
  • L'âne et le chien.
  • Le chien qui on a coupé les oreilles.

Theodor Fontane:

  • Effi Briest.
  • Unwiederbringlich.

Anatol France:

  • The Coming Of Riquet.

John Galsworthy:

  • Dog At Timothy's.

Guenther Grass:

  • Hundejahre. (Dog Years)

Roger Grenier:

  • Les l'armes d'Ulysse.

Brueder Grimm:

  • Der Hund und der Sperling.
  • Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust.

  • Faust.

Earl Hamner:

  • All Dogs Go To Heaven.

Patricia Highsmith:

  • A Dog's Ransom.

T.C. Hinkle:

  • Shag.

T. A. Hoffmann:

  • Nachrichten von den neuesten Schicksalen des Hundes Berganza.

Homer:

  • The Odyssey.

Leigh Anne Jasheway:

  • Bedtime Stories For Dogs.

Franz Kafka:

  • Forschungen eines Hundes.

Rudyard Kipling:

  • Thy Servant A Dog.

Eric Knight:

  • Lassie Come-Home.

D. H. Lawrence:

  • Rex.

Doris Lessing:

  • The Story Of Two Dogs.

Hugh Lofting:

  • The Story Of Dr Doolitle.

Jack London:

  • Call Of The Wild.
  • White Fang.

Thomas Mann:

  • Herr und Hund.

Guy de Maupassant:

  • Une Vendetta.
  • Pierrot.

Christian Morgenstern:

  • Der heroische Pudel.

Christopher Morley:

  • Where The Blue Begins.

George Orwell:

  • Animal Farm.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor:

  • Shiloh.

Rainer Maria Rilke:

  • Der Hund.

Sir Walter Scott:

  • Guy Mannering.

William Shakespeare:

  • The Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
  • Anthony And Cleopatra.

Georges Simenon:

  • Le Chien Jaune.

John Steinbeck:

  • Travels With Charley.

Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan und Isolde.

  • Tristan und Isolde

Albert Payson Terhune:

  • A Book of Famous Dogs,
  • A Dog Named Chips.
  • Buff: a Collie.
  • Bruce
  • His Dog.
  • Lad: a Dog.
  • The Critter And Other Dogs.

Moritz August von Thuemmel:

  • Elegie auf einen Mops.

J.R.R. Tolkien:

  • Roverandom.

Leo Tolstoi:

  • The Kreutzer Sonata.

James Thurber:

  • Thurber's Dog.

Ivan Turgenev: Mumu.

  • Mumu.

Mark Twain:

  • A Dog's Tale.

Jules Verne:

  • L'ile mystérieuse.

P.G. Wodehouse:

  • Gone Wrong.

Virginia Woolf:

  • Flush.

Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer:

  • Das Scheusal.
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