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The story of Doctor Dolittle : being the history of his peculiar life at home and astonishing adventures in foreign parts by Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947 is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Dolittle is an English gentleman who finds himself in the wrong occupation, a doctor of people, and gradually withdraws from society becoming a poor down and out town recluse. One day his English speaking pet parrot Polynesia lets him in on a secret that animals have a language of their own. Dolittle, now able to understand the complaints of animals, becomes a successful and world-renowned doctor of animals. Animal language is the central device of the series - in an age when every Disney film features English speaking animals it seems almost normal, but Lofting makes it seem new and marvelous. Indeed, the animals don't speak English, but each species has its own "secret" language - which is not too far from reality with "horse whisperers" and "dolphin languages."

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Author

Lofting, Hugh, 1886-1947

Publisher

Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920.

Published

1920

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction