Name: Just So Stories
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Author: Mybook ; Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9781975946838

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Illustrated by

Mybook

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

138

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781975946838

Synopsis "Just So Stories "

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. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the Leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated the stories himself. The stories have appeared in a variety of adaptations including a musical and animated films. Evolutionary biologists have noted that what Kipling did in fiction, they have done in reality, providing explanations for the evolutionary development of animal features.

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems, and stories mainly set in India and Burma during the British rule. Kipling was a prolific and popular writer, and his literature always revolves around three axes: patriotism, the duty of the English to lead a life of intense activity, and the destiny of England, called to be a great empire. His insistence on this last aspect was undoubtedly an echo of the Victorian past, and severely damaged his reputation as a writer, despite being the first British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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