The ‘Doctor Dolittle’ stories
Apr 20, 2022
2 minutes
by Hugh Lofting
‘ Nothing in our behaviour undermines Lofting’s belief that animals have at least as much sense as humans ’
IN 1916, Hugh Lofting, a captain in the Irish Guards, was in the thick of action on the Western Front. At home, his children were asking for illustrated letters, but the combination of the horror and the monotony of life in the trenches hardly
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