My Family and Other Animals
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My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| My Family and Other Animals canonical | 2 |
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Target entity: My Family and Other Animals Context triple: [The Durrells in Corfu, hasLiterarySource, My Family and Other Animals]
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: My Family and Other Animals Target entity description: My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
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A.
Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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B.
The Story of My Childhood
The Story of My Childhood is an autobiographical work by American nurse and humanitarian Clara Barton, recounting her early life experiences that shaped her later role as founder of the American Red Cross.
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C.
Now We Are Six
Now We Are Six is a 1927 collection of children’s poems by A. A. Milne, featuring Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, known for its whimsical verse and classic illustrations.
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D.
A Pale View of Hills
A Pale View of Hills is Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, a haunting, introspective work that explores memory, loss, and postwar Japanese identity through the fragmented recollections of a woman living in England.
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E.
Wise Children
Wise Children is a 1991 novel by Angela Carter that blends magical realism, Shakespearean allusion, and bawdy humor to explore themes of legitimacy, performance, and family through the lives of twin chorus girls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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humorous book ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
1987 television series My Family and Other Animals
NERFINISHED
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2005 television film My Family and Other Animals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Gerald Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts | Durrell family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Theodore Stephanides
NERFINISHED
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Lawrence Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisa Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Spiro Halikiopoulos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | print ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
NERFINISHED
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The Garden of the Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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humor ⓘ memoir ⓘ nature writing ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
expatriate life
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naturalism ⓘ zoology ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
childhood
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eccentricity ⓘ family life ⓘ natural history ⓘ wildlife observation ⓘ |
| inspired | ITV series The Durrells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
anecdotal
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comic ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Gerald Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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print ⓘ |
| narrator | Gerald Durrell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing Gerald Durrell as a writer
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portrayal of an eccentric British expatriate family ⓘ vivid descriptions of Corfu wildlife ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Corfu trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | none ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| publisher | Rupert Hart-Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Corfu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfNarrative | approximately 1935–1939 ⓘ |
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Subject: My Family and Other Animals Description of subject: My Family and Other Animals is a humorous autobiographical book by naturalist Gerald Durrell recounting his eccentric family's life and his childhood wildlife adventures on the Greek island of Corfu in the 1930s.
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