Flush: A Biography (Deluxe Hardcover Book)

Flush: A Biography an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Flush tells the story of a young red cocker spaniel that becomes the pet of the celebrated poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. But his new mistress suffers from constant ill health and Flush is forced to exchange the rural life he loves for a staid urban existence as the house-pet of an invalid. Woolf uses the anthropomorphic style of the novel to great effect giving the reader a dog's-eye-view of humanity and its foibles as well as musing on such larger themes as friendship and the nature of freedom.