The History of Pompey the Little, or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

The first English novel with a dog as its hero - and one of the sharpest satires of the age, told from lap height.

Published anonymously in 1751 and the talk of London within weeks, Francis Coventry's The History of Pompey the Little, or The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog follows a Bologna lapdog as he passes from owner to owner through fashionable English and continental society. Pompey observes everything and judges nothing, which leaves his author free to do both: fine ladies, learned m...