Most Popular Books by Eric Knight

Lassie is Joe''s prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe''s father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone. But Lassie is not just any dog. First published in 1940, Lassie Come-Home has become one of the best-loved dog stories in the world. This beautiful 75th anniversary edition showcases the original text and illustrations with a striking new jacket design and a new introduction from bestselling author Ann M. Martin.

Eric Knight, the internationally known film reviewer of the 1930s and author of Lassie-Come-Home tells his story in his own words, with the help of Geoff Gehman.

These ten stories of Sam Small and other Yorkshiremen, were written by Eric Knight (of ''Lassie Come Home'' fame), with pride and a touch of homesickness, while ''in exile'' in America in the early 20th century. Sam Small is a brilliant creation, thick of accent but sharp of mind and with the power of flight! These stories are larger than life, full of improbable accounts and the humor that arises from clashes in culture, and all laced with traditional Yorkshire values and wit.

This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does. This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other dreamy escapism. You''ll have to read to believe how he learned to fly like a bird, by faith; how he changed a dog into a girl and back again; how he coped with the two selves of his split personality; and how he was called upon to explain the tricky foreign phrase, droit de seigneur, which said in effect that the duke of the neighboring parish was required by law to go to bed with Ian Cawper''s Mary Ann the night of their wedding. Here are fun humourous fantasies and shaggy dog stories by the author who would create "Lassie."

Spending leave together on the South Coast during the Battle of Britain and the beginning of the blitz, Clive and Prudence have an affair. Having survived Dunkirk, but having a crisis of conscience over what the war is being fought for and disgusted at the incompetence of the ruling elite, Clive decides not to return to the Army and to go absent without leave. Deserving comparison to Hemingway''s "A Farewell to Arms", This Above All was heralded as the first great novel of the Second World War... and it is about the war, but first and last it is a great love story, a great adventure in thinking things through. This soldier, discharged on leave after hospitalization, meets a girl in uniform of the W.A.A.F’s - and they break through the barriers of tradition and class and come to understand what both of them really stand for.

Prawdziwa przyjaźń przezwycięży wszystkie przeszkody. Joe ma szczęśliwe dzieciństwo, dopóki jego rodzice nie wpadają w finansowe tarapaty. Sposobem na wyjście z kłopotów jest sprzedaż Lassie - ukochanego pupila chłopca. Załamany Joe musi pożegnać się z psem, który trafia do posiadłości księcia Rudlinga w dalekiej Szkocji. Czy ogromny dystans zakończy niezwykłą relację między człowiekiem a zwierzęciem? Utwór został wydany jako nowela, ale ze względu na popularność autor napisał na jego podstawie również powieść. W 1943 r. zekranizowano historię z udziałem 10-letniej Elizabeth Taylor. Doskonała pozycja dla młodych miłośników "O psie, który jeździł koleją". Eric Knight (1897-1943) - amerykański pisarz, najbardziej znany jako autor powieści młodzieżowej "Lassie, wróć!". Urodził się w Wielkiej Brytanii, dzieciństwo spędził w Afryce Południowej, a po śmierci ojca wraz z matką przeniósł się do USA. Pracował jako reporter i scenarzysta, hodował owczarki szkockie collie. Służył w armii, uzyskał stopień majora. Zginął na służbie, w wypadku samolotowym.

Lassie adlı köpeğin, insan ve hayvan dostlarının maceralarını konu alan bir roman.

A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate.