This is the story of Sam Small, a man from Yorkshire who wakes up one morning and decides that he can fly on his own two hands. So he does. This is for all those who know that dogs talk, Sundays can be repeated seven days in a row so that Monday never comes, and other dreamy escapism. You'll have to read to believe how he learned to fly like a bird, by faith; how he changed a dog into a girl and back again; how he coped with the two selves of his split personality; and how he was called upon to explain the tricky foreign phrase, droit de seigneur, which said in effect that the duke of the neighboring parish was required by law to go to bed with Ian Cawper's Mary Ann the night of their wedding. Here are fun humourous fantasies and shaggy dog stories by the author who would create "Lassie."

Ten short stories about Sam Small, including the Flying Yorkshireman.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

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 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.Gained enormous popularity after his famous novel Lassie, Come Home, which made the canine Lassie an icon among all pets, Eric Knight had written more than a dozen novel pieces of which each has a saga rounding about the story.Lived between 10 April 1897 and 15 January 1943 and whose christian name was Eric Oswald Mowbray Knight was son of an affluent diamond merchant. His father died when he was only two years old. It was Boer war that killed his father. His family moved to Russia for a while and from there they moved to the USA to settle permanently.The Flying Yorkshireman which is originally a compilation of 10 of his great stories is superb collection that every humour lover would love to keep in his collection.

Eric Knight, the internationally known film reviewer of the 1930s and author of Lassie-Come-Home tells his story in his own words, with the help of Geoff Gehman.