Just So Stories
$19.54
- 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: | 197mm x 131mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay in 1865. In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. He died in 1936.
JAN MONTEFIOIRE is Professor of 20th Century English Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of 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 teaches at George Washington University, Washington DC. Her most recent book is Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (2001), and her interests include British Romanticism, colonial and postcolonial literatures, and children’s literature.
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