- Animals, Classic Literature, Children's stories, Fiction
When his colleague Long Arrow disappears, Dr. Dolittle sets off with his assistant, Tommy Stubbins, his dog, Jip, and Polynesia the parrot on an adventurous voyage over tropical seas to floating Spidermonkey Island.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Hugh Lofting
- First published
- June 1998
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Lulu Press, Inc., IndyPublish, Bantam Doubleday Dell Books
- Editions
- 158
- Language
- French, English, und, dan
- ISBN
- 9780060776008
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“ALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known him- indeed a great deal of it took place before I was born.”
Hugh John Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle — one of the classics of children's literature. Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Lofting
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