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Old 03-05-2018, 09:56 PM   #1
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Lofting, Hugh: Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (illus). v2. 03 May 2018

This book was first published in 1923. The text and illustrations are in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+70” or less.


When he discovers that animals from all over the world want to communicate with each other, Doctor Dolittle has the wonderful idea of setting up the Swallow Mail, the fastest postal service ever.

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British author Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) created the character of Doctor Dolittle, one of the classics of children’s literature. The Doctor first appeared in Lofting’s illustrated letters to his children, written from the trenches while he was serving in the British Army during World War I. The stories (a series of twelve books, the final two completed and published posthumously) are set in early Victorian England. The second in the series, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922), won Lofting the prestigious Newbery Medal.

Despite the author’s obviously benign posture, the books became a target of controversy in the 1960’s amid accusations of racism and attitudes of colonialism, and went out of print in the USA for some time. Later editions in the 1980’s were bowdlerized to remove offending content and illustrations. The Doctor and the tales of his adventures are better known today through movie and television adaptations.
(—Extracted and adapted from Wikipedia.)


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This ebook is based on text from an archive.org scan of an early unexpurgated UK edition. OCR errors were corrected; punctuation, italics and diacritics formatted; illustrations manually cleaned and enhanced. Embedded font for titling. Images of Vintage Cover and End Papers are included. To provide consistency throughout this series of ten books, some punctuation was modernized and spelling standardized.

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THE “SHOW BIZ” SEQUENCE:

THE STORY OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S POST OFFICE --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S CIRCUS --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S CARAVAN --
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[[[ DOCTOR DOLITTLE AND THE GREEN CANARY ]]]
Cannot be posted on MobileRead. The book was completed and edited posthumously by Lofting’s sister-in-law Olga Michael/Olga Fricker (1902–1997). This book expands and continues the story of Pippinella, star of Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan. It is available to borrow at OpenLibrary.org: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1449...e_Green_Canary


THE “VOYAGES” SEQUENCE:

THE VOYAGES OF DOCTOR DOLITTLE --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S ZOO --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S GARDEN --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE’S RETURN --
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DOCTOR DOLITTLE AND THE SECRET LAKE --
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Old 03-12-2018, 12:22 PM   #2
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It's ironic that modern audiences may associate the name with Eddie Murphy's movie character
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I never saw either of the Doctor Dolittle movie "adaptations", but I understand that the Rex Harrison musical from the 1960's at least used material from the books. From reviews I have read, the Eddie Murphy version only appropriated the name and the fact that he could talk to animals. Kind of makes you wonder how the Hollywood minds function.
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Actually, there were two more after that with the on-screen daughter (also black) taking the role of the Doctor.

I meant ironic because of the bowdlerization of some versions of these stories. Most of the edited sections seemed pretty mild to me in any case.
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Oh, I see what you mean. (slow on the uptake...)

I read some reviews/discussion of the bowdlerized series of books, and learned that Prince Bumpo was nearly entirely deleted--- which is a shame, he is a wonderfully comic character with his almost-accurate elegant vocabulary (lovely spoonerisms and puns!).
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