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01 - PUDDLEBY

An episode of the The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2) podcast, hosted by Hugh Lofting, titled "01 - PUDDLEBY" was published on November 11, 2012 and runs 5 minutes.

November 11, 2012 ·5m · The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 2)

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Story of Doctor Dolittle (Dramatic Reading) by Hugh Lofting Loyal Books John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradually began to lose his patients. Finally the only patient who remains, the Cat's-Meat-Man, makes a suggestion - why doesn't he give up treating people and become an animal doctor?And so Dr. Dolittle becomes an animal doctor, and life seems to be going well. But with the addition of an escaped crocodile to his store of pets, even the animals stop coming to see him. What to do?Children of all ages - and adults too - will enjoy the story of the good Doctor and his animals as he travels to Africa and back, braves shipwrecks and pirates, escapes from prison, and tries to reunite a little boy with his kidnapped uncle, all with the help of his charming animal friends. Please note that this book was written at a different time and includes attitudes which are now considered racist. Some modern editions are available with some of this changed - this rec Take some time to read some books songaixia adventure novels:The Story of Doctor Dolittle By: Hugh Lofting (1886-1947)Scaramouche By: Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)The Land that Time Forgot By: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)The Jungle Book By: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)The Story of the Treasure Seekers By: Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)The Cosmic Computer By: H. Beam Piper (1904-1964)The First Men in the Moon By: H. G. Wells (1866-1946)Typee By: Herman Melville (1819-1891)The Adventures of Maya the Bee By: Waldemar Bonsels (1880-1952)Star Born By: Andre Norton (1912-2005)The Prisoner of Zenda By: Anthony Hope (1863-1933)Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X By: Victor Appleton (1873-1962)Ivanhoe By: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)The Last Trail By: Zane Grey (1872-1939)At the Earth's Core By: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)At the Back of the North Wind By: George MacDonald (1824-1905)Ragged Dick By: Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)<br / The Street of Seven Stars Mary Roberts Rinehart Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money and return to the States, Harmony stays on in hopes of earning enough money to continue her lessons. Along the way, she meets Peter Byrne, an American doctor in Vienna following his dream to study surgery. Peter is already watching over an orphan boy in a local hospital and now he takes it upon himself to protect young Harmony from the unsavory side of life in the big city. With life pressing in, Peter and Harmony each must decide how much to sacrifice for the sake of their dreams - and for each other. (Summary by MaryAnn) Three Sisters by May Sinclair Loyal Books Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the rebellion of human sensuality in almost every major character in the story against the artificial constraints of conventional Society and Religion. Sinclair, herself a fascinating hybrid of Victorian and modern, shows the desperate, inertial ennui inherent in the lives of unmarried late-Victorian women dependent on their male guardians but fired by dreams and desires of their own. Sinclair's gentl
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