Adventures of Rusty: Collected Stories - Couverture souple

Bond, Ruskin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143332228 ISBN 13 : 9780143332220

Editeur : Puffin, 2012

Synopsis

From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra; surrounded by an assortment of odd animals; people and relatives; to when he gets sent away to school; then makes his way to London and becomes a writer; Rusty's had more adventures than we can count. The Adventures of Rusty brings together his best; funniest; most exciting escapades. In these pages there's Toto; the monkey that travelled in a bag in a train; an encounter with a leopard; life as a young writer in faraway London; and the return home to roots that were always loved and never forgotten. An evergreen classic of children's writing in India; Rusty's stories will be enjoyed like never before in this omnibus edition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruskin Bond, born in Kasauli in 1934, grew up in Jamnagar, Dehradun, New Delhi and Shimla. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, which was written when he was seventeen, received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, essays and novellas (including Vagrants in the Valley and A Flight of Pigeons) and more than forty books for children. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India in 1992, the Padma Shri in 1999, the Delhi government's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and Padma Bhushan in 2014 for his contribution to literature.


Ruskin lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his extended family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Puffin
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143332228
• ISBN 13: 9780143332220
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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