''Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.''

Virginia Woolf''s delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog.

One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics'' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.