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    Argos and His Master
    Argos and His Master
    Argos and His Master
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    Argos and His Master

    By Italo Svevo

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    "Life is this way: first you have to beg for things and then you have to growl to keep them." Argos's master has been sent to the mountains for his health. Bored, he resolves to teach his hunting dog to talk. The experiment fails, but he himself--the more advanced animal--manages to learn Argos's language.

    Translated from Italian (2012) by Juan LePuen
    Length: 9,200 words
    Genre: short story

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateAug 28, 2012
    ISBN9781476035666
    Argos and His Master
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    Italo Svevo

    Italian writer, born in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1861, and most well known for the novel _La coscienza di Zeno_.

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