Doctor Dolittle's Circus

Lofting, Hugh

A Talking-Animal Adventure of Rescue, Humor, and Humane Fantasy Under the Big Top

12,60 €

ISBN: 9788028336202

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 404 g

Produktinformationen "Doctor Dolittle's Circus"

In Doctor Dolittle's Circus, Hugh Lofting places his celebrated physician-naturalist within the bustling, morally ambiguous world of popular entertainment. The narrative follows Dolittle as he joins a circus, tends to its animals, and reshapes its human economy through sympathy, ingenuity, and interspecies understanding. Written in Lofting's plain, whimsical prose, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century tradition of animal fantasy, yet it also gently satirizes commercial spectacle and human vanity. Lofting, a British-born engineer turned writer, first invented Doctor Dolittle in letters to his children during the First World War, imagining a humane alternative to violence and brutality. His technical training, wide travels, and discomfort with human cruelty inform the doctor's practical intelligence and ethical seriousness. Though marked by some assumptions of its period, the series repeatedly advances compassion toward animals as a civilizing principle. This volume is recommended for readers interested in classic children's literature, animal stories, and the evolution of humane fantasy. It offers adventure, comedy, and moral reflection without heavy didacticism. For modern readers, Doctor Dolittle's Circus remains valuable as both an imaginative entertainment and a revealing document of interwar literary culture.

Eigenschaften "Doctor Dolittle's Circus"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine Interessen: Theater und darstellende Kunst, Kinder/Jugendliche: Allgemeine, moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik
Verlag:	Sharp Ink

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