Just So Stories

Just So Stories
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Год
 
Страниц
 
290
ISBN
 
0192822764
Издатель
 
Oxford University Press
Категория
 
Kipling, Rudyard

Содержание:

General Preface, Introduction, Just So Stories

Описание:

How did the camel get his hump? Why won`t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling`s imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world. He plays games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends` children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other`s pleasure,but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Killing`s own explanation of the title.

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