Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs

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Humor, Christmas and pets – young readers who love these three things, will surely love Eleanor Hallowell Abbott.

Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs is a story for children and, according to some, more of a Christmas story than Dickens’ Christmas Carol. The main character, Flame, is in her teens, dreamy and stubborn like every teen. The 18-year-old girl decides to give a Christmas party, but not for humans – the party is for her neighbors’ dogs. Flame is left home alone for Christmas and she volunteers to babysit the neighbor’s dogs – a bulldog, a Dalmatian, a setter and a Russian wolfhound. Flame wants to be surrounded by the creatures she has recently become friends with and has started to care for deeply and that is when all the chaos starts. As you might imagine, the starting point of the plot has immense potential and the story is indeed full of funny situations and the language used by the author is very funny, too. Flame prepares dinner for the dogs and goes through lots of funny adventures. She even falls in love and this is also something that doesn’t make things easier.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was one of the most recognized women writers of the first half of the 20th century. She worked as a teacher and she wrote for numerous prestigious magazines of the time, including The Ladies’ Home Journal and Harper’s Magazine. Most of her fictional writings have young girls as protagonists and her stories blend romance with hardships, but they always conclude in happy endings. Her writing style is also very characteristic: she uses short sentences and vivid, original, but often weird imagery. Besides short stories for adults and children she also wrote poetry, wonderful poems that conveyed intense feelings and a truly feminine way of looking at the world.
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