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    The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life: at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (Classic Reprint)
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    The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life: at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (Classic Reprint)
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    The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life: at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (Classic Reprint)

    By Hugh Lofting

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    The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWS
    Release dateOct 31, 2018
    ISBN9782291055327
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    The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life: at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (Classic Reprint)
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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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