| Just So Stories (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author), Gleeson, J. M. (Illustrator), Bransom, Paul (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1409938239 ISBN-13: 9781409938231 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $11.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - General |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6" W x 9" (0.45 lbs) 134 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and his novel, Kim (1901). Among his short stories are The Man Who Would Be King (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best work speaks to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and he remains today its youngest-ever recipient. Among other honours, he was offered the British Poet Laureateship and a knighthood, both of which he refused. |