Great and Small: Writers Their Pets and Other Animals by Annalie Talent- 2nd October 2025
“He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small…” Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Robert Burns’s mouse to Shelley’s skylark;[…]
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