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Lassie Come-Home

Paperback

Main Details

Title Lassie Come-Home
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Eric Knight
Illustrated by Gary Blythe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
ISBN/Barcode 9781847495785
ClassificationsDewey:823.912
Audience
Children's (6-12)
Illustrations 20 black and white illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Imprint Alma Classics
Publication Date 27 February 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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?Based on the author's own childhood memories and filled with adventure and suspense, Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight's best-loved novel and a huge best-seller, famously adapted into a 1943 Hollywood movie - is a timeless classic and one of the greatest dog stories ever written.

Author Biography

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.