Name: Just So Stories (Deluxe Library Edition) (in English)
Price: 25.22 USD
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard ; Gleeson, Joseph Michael
ISBN: 9781774765548

portada Just So Stories (Deluxe Library Edition) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Publisher

Engage Classics

Language

English

Pages

100

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781774765548

Synopsis "Just So Stories (Deluxe Library Edition) (in English)"

Just So Stories is a collection of origin stories that explain why something is the way it is. Nine of the thirteen Just So Stories describe how different animals acquired their most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain.Included are fourteen color illustrations by Joseph Michael Gleeson. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction in a Lamarckian way, they have done in reality, providing Darwinian explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films. They are considered a classic of children's literature and the book is among Kipling's best known works.

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling escribió novelas, poemas y relatos ambientados principalmente en la India y Birmania durante la época de gobierno británico. Kipling fue un escritor prolífico y popular, y su literatura gira siempre en torno a tres ejes: el patriotismo, el deber de los ingleses de llevar una vida de intensa actividad y el destino de Inglaterra, llamada a ser un gran imperio. Su insistencia en este último aspecto era sin duda un eco del pasado victoriano, y perjudicó gravemente su reputación como escritor, a pesar de que fue el primer autor británico galardonado con el Nobel de Literatura.

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