A Literary Dog for Every Day of the Year: Mischievous mutts and faithful friends - literature's waggiest tales

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

Dogs and writers seem to belong together like bread and butter: you can't one without the other... well, not really. From John Steinbeck's poodle Charley and Philip Pullman's cockapoos, to Mr Rochester's Pilot and the faithful Argos of Homer's Odyssey, we have all grown up with a dog - whether real or fictional - there is a certain rightness to the pairing. And as valuable as they are in t...