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The book describes how a lamb enters a forest after becoming separated from its flock. Here it is befriended by a leapordess, and soon its innocence begins to influence the various animals of the forest. Eventually it is reunited with its shepherd.
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It has been described as an allegory, an intricate fantasy, with a poetic style, “reminiscent by turns of medieval beast fables, of Isaiah's vision of the time when "the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb" and of the
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