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A fascinating history of extraordinary children -- brought up by animals, raised in the wilderness, or locked up for long years in solitary confinement. Newton investigates a number of infamous cases: Peter the Wild Boy, who gripped the attention of Swift & Defoe; Victor of Aveyron, who roamed wild in the forests of revolutionary France; a savage girl lost on the streets of Paris; 2 children brought up by wolves in the jungles of India; a LA girl, who emerged from 13 years locked in a room to international celebrity; a boy brought up among monkeys in Uganda; & a child in Moscow found living with a pack of wild dogs. Newton examines the lives of these children & of the adults who rescued them, looked after them, educated, or abused them. Ill.
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Praise for Michael Newton’s Savage Girls and Wild Boys
“Newton’s thoughtful and crisply written book...tells [the stories] confidently, clearly, and with great humanity.”
---Richard Davenport-Hines, author of The Pursuit of Oblivion and Gothic
“Newton’s style and tone set out to entertain. He is scholarly, playful, and very slightly mad.”
---Ian Sansom, author of The Truth About Babies
“A fascinating, truly thought-provoking book, written with passionate intelligence.”
---Melissa Murray, author of Changelings
“The stories, which Michael Newton has collected and analyzed, are parables about what it means to be human, and they demonstrate how flimsy our definition of ourselves as superior creatures actually is.”
---Peter Conrad, author of The Hitchcock Murders
“A collection of six extraordinary individual histories, beautifully navigated.”
---Francis Spufford, author of The Child That Books Built
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“Newton’s thoughtful and crisply written book...tells [the stories] confidently, clearly, and with great humanity.”
---Richard Davenport-Hines, author of The Pursuit of Oblivion and Gothic
“Newton’s style and tone set out to entertain. He is scholarly, playful, and very slightly mad.”
---Ian Sansom, author of The Truth About Babies
“A fascinating, truly thought-provoking book, written with passionate intelligence.”
---Melissa Murray, author of Changelings
“The stories, which Michael Newton has collected and analyzed, are parables about what it means to be human, and they demonstrate how flimsy our definition of ourselves as superior creatures actually is.”
---Peter Conrad, author of The Hitchcock Murders
“A collection of six extraordinary individual histories, beautifully navigated.”
---Francis Spufford, author of The Child That Books Built
Michael Newton is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children and of a book on Kind Hearts and Coronets for the BFI Film Classics Series. He has also edited Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent (Penguin Classics), Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (Oxford World Classics) and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories. He has taught at UCL, Central St Martin's College of Art, and Princeton University; he works at the University of Leiden. He has written articles and reviews for the Guardian, TLS, THES and London Review of Books.
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- PublisherSt. Martin s Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0756789141
- ISBN 13 9780756789145
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages284
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