The Story of Doctor Dolittle: [Illustrated]

by Hugh Lofting

Overview

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 the British author 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786257120463
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	07/21/1920
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 12 Years

About the Author

Hugh John Lofting (1886 - 1947) was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children's literature character of Doctor Dolittle. It first appeared in illustrated letters to his children written by Lofting from the British Army trenches in World War I.

Hugh Lofting's character Doctor John Dolittle, an English physician from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country, who could speak to animals, first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during the 1914-1918 War, when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England in the 1820s-1840s (The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle gives a date of 1839). He was living in Killingworth, Connecticut, while he wrote most of the instalments to the series.

The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts Never Before Printed (1920) began the series and won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. The sequel The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922) won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal. Eight more books followed, and after Lofting's death two more appeared, composed of short previously unpublished pieces.

Table of Contents

About the Book & Author

INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK

THE FIRST CHAPTER: PUDDLEBY

THE SECOND CHAPTER: ANIMAL LANGUAGE

THE THIRD CHAPTER: MORE MONEY TROUBLES

THE FOURTH CHAPTER: A MESSAGE FROM AFRICA

THE FIFTH CHAPTER: THE GREAT JOURNEY

THE SIXTH CHAPTER: POLYNESIA AND THE KING

THE SEVENTH CHAPTER: THE BRIDGE OF APES

THE EIGHTH CHAPTER: THE LEADER OF THE LIONS

THE NINTH CHAPTER: THE MONKEYS' COUNCIL

THE TENTH CHAPTER: THE RAREST ANIMAL OF ALL

THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER: THE BLACK PRINCE

THE TWELFTH CHAPTER: MEDICINE AND MAGIC

THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER: RED SAILS AND BLUE WINGS

THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER: THE RATS' WARNING

THE FIFTEENTH CHAPTER: THE BARBARY DRAGON

THE SIXTEENTH CHAPTER: TOO-TOO, THE LISTENER

THE SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER: THE OCEAN GOSSIPS

THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER: SMELLS

THE NINETEENTH CHAPTER: THE ROCK

THE TWENTIETH CHAPTER: THE FISHERMAN'S TOWN

THE LAST CHAPTER: HOME AGAIN

Editorial Reviews

"Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others."

"Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry."

― Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle

From the Publisher