Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
Chapter 1 of 22 Author's Note and Dedication; Introduction
0:00
8:55
- Running time
- 3 h 9 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Andrea L, Anita Roy Dobbs, Annie Coleman Rothenberg, Betsie Bush, Duane Paulson and 8 others
Chapters
About this recording
In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way.
This recording is of the original edition, which is in the public domain. Later editions, which are still under copyright, changed some language and plot elements that are considered racially derogatory.
(Summary adapted from wikipedia.org by Annie Coleman)
