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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. * * * * * 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 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. Note that this is an “unsanitized” version. ******** Uploaded version 2 with text and format tweaks. Previous downloads 54. LINKS TO THE DOCTOR DOLITTLE BOOKS: Spoiler:
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