Name: The Story of Doctor Dolittle
SKU: 61593191
Price: 23.06 EUR
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Author: Hugh Lofting
ISBN: 9781545069820

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hugh Lofting

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.4 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN13

9781545069820

Synopsis "The Story of Doctor Dolittle"

There are some of us now reaching middle age who discover themselves to be lamenting the past in one respect if in none other, that there are no books written now for children comparable with those of thirty years ago. I say written for children because the new psychological business of writing about them as though they were small pills or hatched in some especially scientific method is extremely popular today. Writing for children rather than about them is very difficult as everybody who has tried it knows. It can only be done, I am convinced, by somebody having a great deal of the child in his own outlook and sensibilities. Such was the author of "The Little Duke" and "The Dove in the Eagle's Nest," such the author of "A Flatiron for a Farthing," and "The Story of a Short Life." Such, above all, the author of "Alice in Wonderland." Grownups imagine that they can do the trick by adopting baby language and talking down to their very critical audience. There never was a greater mistake.

Hugh Lofting

(Author)

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Hugh John Lofting was an English writer and civil engineer who created the character of Doctor Dolittle —one of the classics of children's literature. After serving in World War I, where he was seriously injured, he and his family moved to Connecticut in the U.S.

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