Just So Stories
$20.69
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
9 June 2011
Summary
A new edition of Kipling’s well-loved fables, edited by Judith Plotz
The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories which conjure up distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the deserts, the jungle and its creatures. Inspired by Kipling’s delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creati…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141442409 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 9 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 131mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1882, he began his career as a journalist in India, where he produced a body of work including stories, sketches, and poems. His collection Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) brought him immediate literary fame upon his return to England in 1889.
His most celebrated works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). Kipling declined the position of Poet Laureate and other civic honors, but he was the first English author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He passed away in 1936.
Jan Montefiore
Jan Montefiore is a Professor of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent. Her published works include Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996), Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002), Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004), and Rudyard Kipling (2007).
Judith Plotz
Judith Plotz teaches at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her most recent book is Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (2001). Her academic interests encompass British Romanticism, colonial and postcolonial literatures, and children’s literature.
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