Author: Eric Knight

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Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781500224059

England's answer to America's James Thurber or Thorne Smith, Knight created the character Sam Small, a villager from Yorkshire whose stock in trade was an endless parade of outrageous tarradiddles and tall tales. Sam's adventures are chronicled in the ten stories of this vintage volume, originally published as Sam Small Flies Again. That's right, Sam can literally fly, which puts him into all sorts of mischief. "An immensely funny book." - The New York Times.Gained enormous popularity after his famous novel Lassie, Come Home, which made the canine Lassie an icon among all pets, Eric Knight had written more than a dozen novel pieces of which each has a saga rounding about the story.Lived between 10 April 1897 and 15 January 1943 and whose christian name was Eric Oswald Mowbray Knight was son of an affluent diamond merchant. His father died when he was only two years old. It was Boer war that killed his father. His family moved to Russia for a while and from there they moved to the USA to settle permanently.The Flying Yorkshireman which is originally a compilation of 10 of his great stories is superb collection that every humour lover would love to keep in his collection.