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Heart of a Child (novel)

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Heart of a Child
First edition
AuthorPhyllis Bottome
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
1940
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Heart of a Child is a 1940 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. Set in the Tirol, Austria, it focuses on a boy and his pet Saint Bernard[1]

Adaptation

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In 1958 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Clive Donner and starring Jean Anderson, Donald Pleasence and Maureen Pryor.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Jones p.96 (location of novel corrected)
  2. ^ Goble p.49

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Jones, Amanda. Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century. Routledge, 2018.