Title: Wild Boy
Description: Drawing on the true case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron and vividly evoking the mood of the times, this novel brings to life a tale which has parallels in modern stories of autistic children, a tale of love, brutality and heroic determination.
Subjects: Fiction, Feral children, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: France
People: Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard
Time periods: 1789-1815