Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Globe Pequot Press
Published:1st Oct '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Set in 1699 and framed around the Jacobite (supporters of the overthrown king, James II) conspiracies of the time, Lieutenant Cornelius Vanslyperken is the greedy and treacherous commander of a small vessel that hunts for smugglers in the English Channel. Snarleyyow is his "indestructible" dog.
"Perhaps the most remarkable instance of a man working his professional knowledge with effect in literature." --G. E. B. Saintsbury
"In a purely literary sense [his] real masterpiece." -- The Oxford Companion
ISBN: 9780935526646
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
Weight: 508g
384 pages