Lassie Come-Home: Illustrated by Gary Blythe (Alma Junior Classics): Eric Knight. - Softcover

Eric Knight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847495788 ISBN 13: 9781847495785

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2016

Synopsis

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 overcome 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, which inspired many film and TV adaptations is a timeless tale and one of the greatest dog stories ever written.

About this title

Review:

'Told without sentimentality and with deep insight into the characters not only of collies but of those who love them' --Times Literary Supplement

'A timeless tale and one of the greatest dog stories ever written' --Surrey Advertiser

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1847495788
• ISBN 13: 9781847495785
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: Gary Blythe