Books with author Hugh Walpole

Doctor Dolittle was a little, lovable old doctor who had so many animal pets about his place that his patients would not come to see him anymore. So he became the animals’ own doctor, and his fame spread far and wide among them. A call came from the monkeys in Africa who were suffering from an epidemic, and the doctor went to their aid.Doctor Dolittle and his pets had wonderful adventures in Africa. In return for his services he was presented with a new pet, the Pushme-Pullyu, which has two heads so that it can talk and eat at the same time without being impolite. There never was quite such another little old doctor—his story will charm grownups as well as children, and the author’s delightfully humorous illustrations add the finishing touch to the volume.This edition has been lightly edited for modern readers. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.Hugh Lofting was winner of the Newberry Medal for “the most distinguished contribution to literature for children in 1922.”

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Set at the time of the Russian revolution (for clarity, the second one, not the first). Anything, to grab me as either a plot, or a central thread, or even a connection really as to what this book was about. Divided into three sections, the book follows many lives intertwined by different arrivals in Petrograd, Russia, and a family already living there. There is vague mention of a 'monster sighting' beneath a frozen river. there is political intrigue. . . there is a love story. . . and there is the revolution. But sadly, none of these themes ever emerges victorious over the others in captivating a reader's interest.Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. A best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s, his works have been neglected since his death.

About thirty years ago there was at the top of the right-hand side of Orange Street, in Polchester, a large stone house. I say "was"; the shell of it is still there, and the people who now live in it are quite unaware, I suppose, that anything has happened to the inside of it, except that they are certainly assured that their furniture is vastly superior to the furniture of their predecessors. They have a gramophone, a pianola, and a lift to bring the plates from the kitchen into the dining-room, and a small motor garage at the back where the old pump used to be, and a very modern rock garden where once was the pond with the fountain that never worked. Let them cherish their satisfaction. No one grudges it to them. The Coles were, by modern standards, old-fashioned people, and the Stone House was an old-fashioned house.

Robin Trojan was waiting for his father. Through the open window of the drawing-room came, faintly, the cries of the town—the sound of some distant bell, the shout of fishermen on the quay, the muffled beat of the mining-stamps from Porth-Vennic, a village that lay two miles inland. There yet lingered in the air the faint afterglow of the sunset, and a few stars, twinkling faintly in the deep blue of the night sky, seemed reflections of the orange lights of the herring-boats, flashing far out to sea.