Eric Knight
1) The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman: The Amazing Adventures of the Flying Yorkshireman
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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...
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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...
10) Lassie come-home
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After being sold to a wealthy duke living in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey to Yorkshire in order to be reunited with her former master, the son of a poor farmer.
11) Lassie
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The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
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Lassie come home: Every day, Lassie waits for Joe outside school ... until she's sold by Joe's impoverished family. An 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor helps Lassie escape kennel captivity.
National Velvet: Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, who trains a horse she won in a raffle and poses as a boy to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase.