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    Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting
    Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting
    Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting
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    Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting

    Written by Hugh Lofting

    Narrated by Gideon Wagner and Ghizela Rowe

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    About this audiobook

    Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents.

    Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school from the age of eight. By 1905 at age eighteen he was to study abroad, taking classes at the esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA in civil engineering. Thereafter he embarked on a quest to travel widely before settling down to write of his adventures.

    Lofting had always leaned towards pacifism but the Great War was about to erupt all over Europe. Initially Lofting worked for the British Government whilst based in New York but by 1918 he had enlisted and was fighting on the front line. Life on the front line, in the trenches, was hell beyond description. Lofting didn’t want to include this grim horror in letters to his children. The answer for them and for him was to write. With these first letters the imaginative world and the foundations of the very successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children now began.

    But life, for Lofting, in the battle weary trenches was now rudely interrupted. In 1918, as the Allies swept forward against the retreating German lines, Lofting was wounded by shrapnel from a hand grenade that lodged in his upper thigh. This injury would plague him for the rest of his life as some of the metal fragments were impossible to remove.

    After his recovery he was invalided out of the Army. It was now that the family decided to re-locate and they now moved to Killingworth, Connecticut, in the United States. It was to be from here that the Doctor Dolittle series; the adventures of a country physician who learned to talk with animals would be written.

    As we know the books were successful around the world and have been adapted for film and television many times, as well as for stage and for radio.

    Hugh John Lofting died on September 26th, 1947, at age 61 in Topanga, California.

    This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateAug 8, 2018
    ISBN9781787809321
    Victory for the Slain by Hugh Lofting
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    Hugh Lofting

    Hugh Lofting was born in Maidenhead in 1886. He studied engineering in London and America and his work as a civil engineer took him all over the world. He interrupted his career to enlist in the army and fight in the First World War. Wanting to shield his children from the horrors of combat, including the fate of horses on the battlefield, he wrote to them instead about a kindly doctor who could talk to animals. After the war he settled with his family in Connecticut and it was from there that he published his Doctor Dolittle books. The Story of Doctor Dolittle was published in 1920, followed by twelve more in the series. The highly acclaimed author died in 1947.

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