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Lassie Come-Home
Eric Knight
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Description for Lassie Come-Home
Paperback. Beautifully Illustrated by Gary Blythe, this edition includes extra material for young readers. Illustrator(s): Blythe, Gary. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate in Scotland. Undeterred by the distance and driven by instinctive love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and embarks on an epic journey to be reunited with her young master Joe. Will she survive the hardships of the long journey and the various dangers along the way? ... Read more
Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the family falls on hard times, Sam is forced to sell his dog to the Duke of Rudling, who takes her hundreds of miles away to his estate in Scotland. Undeterred by the distance and driven by instinctive love, Lassie escapes from her new owners and embarks on an epic journey to be reunited with her young master Joe. Will she survive the hardships of the long journey and the various dangers along the way? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847495785
SKU
V9781847495785
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About Eric Knight
Born in Britain, Eric Knight (1897-1943) emigrated to the States as a teenager, where he wrote adult novels and stories for young readers, many of them set in his native Yorkshire, until his untimely death in a wartime accident.
Reviews for Lassie Come-Home
Told without sentimentality and with deep insight into the characters not only of collies but of those who love them.
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