Wild Animals I Have Known
At about the same time at the great American writer Jack London, English-born Ernest Seton-Thompson was making a name for himself as another of the early originators of the animal fiction genre. Wild Animals I Have Known, published in 1898, is his most famous and popular work and is a collection of short stories that gives animals - including those commonly demonized - humanistic emotions, often sympathetically. This work, along with others like it, set off what would become known as the nature fakers controversy, when leading artists and literary figures - and even President Roosevelt - clashed over "sentimental" depictions of animals.
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Wild Animals I Have Known
At about the same time at the great American writer Jack London, English-born Ernest Seton-Thompson was making a name for himself as another of the early originators of the animal fiction genre. Wild Animals I Have Known, published in 1898, is his most famous and popular work and is a collection of short stories that gives animals - including those commonly demonized - humanistic emotions, often sympathetically. This work, along with others like it, set off what would become known as the nature fakers controversy, when leading artists and literary figures - and even President Roosevelt - clashed over "sentimental" depictions of animals.
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Wild Animals I Have Known

Wild Animals I Have Known

by Ernest Seton-Thompson
Wild Animals I Have Known

Wild Animals I Have Known

by Ernest Seton-Thompson

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At about the same time at the great American writer Jack London, English-born Ernest Seton-Thompson was making a name for himself as another of the early originators of the animal fiction genre. Wild Animals I Have Known, published in 1898, is his most famous and popular work and is a collection of short stories that gives animals - including those commonly demonized - humanistic emotions, often sympathetically. This work, along with others like it, set off what would become known as the nature fakers controversy, when leading artists and literary figures - and even President Roosevelt - clashed over "sentimental" depictions of animals.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781511773591
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 04/27/2015
Pages: 154
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.33(d)
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