Throughout his life Rudyard Kipling was fond of dogs, and while they featured prominently in early tales such as ’The Dog Hervey’ and ’ Garm – a Hostage’, he later came up with the innovative idea of writing a story from the perspective of a dog, resulting in the hugely successful ’Thy Servant a Dog’, narrated by an Aberdeen terrier named Boots. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author’s life and works, notes and a bibliographic section.