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Lofting, Hugh: Doctor Dolittle's Return (illus). v2. 03 May 2018
Doctor Dolittle's Return --- Told and Illustrated by Hugh Lofting (1886 – 1947)
This book was first published in 1933. Text and illustrations are in the public domain in countries where copyright is “Life+70” or less. The Dolittle household have been anxiously hoping for a year for the Doctor to return from the Moon, and it seems he will never come. What excitement when he does finally arrive, and what dramatic tales he has to tell! But now he is eager to write a book about the moon and his experiences, and in a quest for peace and quiet, attempts to have himself put in jail.... * * * * * 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.) *********** This ebook is based on text and illustrations obtained from a scan of a US edition (1961 ?), believed to be unexpurgated. Images of vintage cover, endpapers, and frontispiece from other sources have been added. OCR errors were corrected; punctuation, italics and diacritics formatted; illustrations manually cleaned and enhanced. To provide consistency throughout this series of ten books, punctuation and spelling were standardized. Embedded font used for titling. *********** Uploaded version 2 with text and format tweaks. Previous downloads 33. LINKS TO THE DOCTOR DOLITTLE BOOKS: Spoiler:
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