Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog "the atmosphere of schoolboy smut and practical jokes and poetry is evoked with lingering accuracy but with nothing more". Critic Jacob Korg later commented that "taken as a group, [the stories] seem to trace the child's emergence from his domain of imagination and secret pleasures into an adult world where he observes suffering, pathos, and dignity". The book has been described as showing Thomas' "waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display". Apart from "Under Milk Wood", the book is "probably the most famous Dylan Thomas book published during his lifetime... certainly the most loved
Episode of the Dog McIntosh Episode of the Dog McIntosh "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in "The Strand Magazine" as "Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh" in the United Kingdom in October 1929, and in "Cosmopolitan" as "The Borrowed Dog" in the United States that same month. The story was also included as the fifth story in the 1930 collection "Very Good, Jeeves". In the story, Bertie must look after his Aunt Agatha's dog McIntosh. Meanwhile, Roberta “Bobbie” Wickham wants Bertie's help to