Just So Stories

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 1840113154 / ISBN 13: 9781840113150

Edité par Borders Press, 2001

N° de réf. du vendeur mon0003325595

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The fourth in Templar's classics series sees Anna Sewell's famous horse story brought to life with 20 vivid plates by Neil Reed.

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About Just so stories by Rudyard Kipling

The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi (French for "why") or origin stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his The Second Jungle Book (1895). In it, Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. The Just So Stories typically have the theme of a particular animal being modified from an original form to its current form by the acts of man, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has a tiny throat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft inside to block the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has a hump given to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusing to work (the hump allows the camel to work longer between times of eating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian (after the Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo gets its powerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after being chased all day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding to the Kangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Just So Stories
Éditeur : Borders Press
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : hardcover
Illustrateur : Helen Ward
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : Includes dust jacket.