12-479: Lassie Come-Home is a novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie 's trek over many miles to be reunited with the boy she loves. Knight had introduced the reading public to the canine character of Lassie in a magazine story published on 17 December 1938, in The Saturday Evening Post , a story which he later expanded to the novel and published in 1940 to critical and commercial success. In 1943,
24-707: A C-54 air crash in Dutch Guiana (now Suriname ) in South America. Springhouse Farm The Springhouse Farm , also known as the Eric Knight Farm, is an historic, American home and farm complex that is located in Springfield Township , Bucks County, Pennsylvania . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. This historic house is a Georgian -style, stone farmhouse that
36-696: A dog that must turn home and it is the name given to the dog in the final chapter where the boy says to the dog: "Ye brought us luck. 'Cause ye're a come-homer. Ye're my Lassie Come-Home. Lassie Come-Home. That's thy name! Lassie Come-Home". In another part of the book, Hynes, a cynical character who oversees the Duke of Rudling's animals, falsely accuses the Carraclough family of training such dogs for fraud : "I know all about yer and yer come-home dogs. Training 'em to break loose and run right back 'ome when they're sold, so then ye can sell 'em to someone else." Film adaptations of
48-744: The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry during World War I as a signaller, then served as a captain of field artillery in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1926. His two brothers were both killed in World War I serving with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard . He did stints as an art student, newspaper reporter and Hollywood screenwriter. He married twice, first on 28 July 1917, to Dorothy Caroline Noyes Hall, with whom he had three daughters and later divorced, and secondly to Jere Brylawski on 2 December 1932. Knight's first novel
60-459: The direction of Frank Capra . Knight and his second wife Jere Knight raised collies on their farm in Pleasant Valley , Bucks County , Pennsylvania . They resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943. His novel Lassie Come-Home ( ISBN 0030441013 ) was published in 1940, expanded from a short story published in 1938 in The Saturday Evening Post . One of Knight's last books
72-504: The novel do not include the hyphen. Lassie Come-Home won the 1943 Young Reader's Choice Award . Eric Knight Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home , which introduced the fictional collie Lassie . He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death. Born in Menston , West Riding of Yorkshire , Knight
84-550: The novel was adapted to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film Lassie Come Home starring Roddy McDowall as the boy Joe Carraclough, Pal as Lassie, and featuring Elizabeth Taylor . The motion picture was selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry . A remake of Lassie Come Home , entitled Lassie , was released in 2005. The hyphen in the title is both an adjective referring to Lassie's purpose as
96-465: 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 . Source: In 1943, at which time he was a major in the United States Army – Special Services where he wrote two of Frank Capra 's Why We Fight series, Knight was killed in
108-652: Was Invitation to Life (Greenberg, 1934). The second was Song on Your Bugles (1936) about the working class in Northern England. As "Richard Hallas", he wrote the hardboiled genre novel You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up (1938). Knight's This Above All is considered one of the significant novels of the Second World War . He also helped co-author the film, Battle of Britain in the " Why We Fight " Series under
120-427: Was Sam Small Flies Again , republished as The Flying Yorkshireman (Pocket Books 493, 1948; 273 pages). On the back of The Flying Yorkshireman , this blurb appeared: 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
132-419: Was built circa 1808. An addition was later erected circa 1941. Other contributing buildings and structures are a stone and frame bank barn (c. 1810) with a carriage house addition (c. 1890), a stone spring house (c. 1810), a stone root cellar (c. 1810), a corn crib (c. 1895), a man-made pond (c. 1940), an outdoor oven (c. 1940), and an privy (c. 1900). The property also includes the burial site for Toots,
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#1732851915529144-541: Was the youngest of three sons born to Marion Hilda (née Creasser) and Frederic Harrison Knight, both Quakers . His father was a rich diamond merchant who, when Eric was two years old, was killed during the Boer War . His mother then moved to St. Petersburg , Imperial Russia , to work as a governess for the imperial family. The family later settled in the United States in 1912. Knight had a varied career, including service in
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