Penguin Classics: Just So Stories

Penguin Classics: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling


ISBN
9780141442402
Published
Released
01 / 06 / 2011
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 14mm

'The rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe'

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 creation, the nature of beasts and the origins of language and writing. They are linked by poems and scattered with Kipling's illustrations, which contain hidden jokes, symbols and puzzles. Among Kipling's most loved works, the Just So Stories have been continually in print since 1902.

Part of a series of new editions of Kipling's works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Judith Plotz exploring the origins of the stories in Kipling's own life and in folklore, their place in classic children's literature and their extraordinary language.

Edited with an introduction by JUDITH PLOTZ
Series Editor JAN MONTEFIORE
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