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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A selection of Kipling's later stories that range over subjects such as ghosts, hauntings, and the rejoicing of a pioneer motorist on his new-found freedom of the countryside. Two of his most famous uncollected stories are also included: "Proofs of a Holy Writ" and "'Teem', a Treasure Hunter".
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, revealing Kipling's legendary powers of observation, and in "Baa Baa, Black Sheep" his own miserable childhood. From Mrs. Hauksbee's Simla drawing-room to Mulvaney's cot in barracks,...
Author
Publisher
Weathervane
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. 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...
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