Una raccolta di miti instancabilmente inventiva che tradiscono un profondo amore e rispetto per il mondo naturale, l'edizione Penguin Classics di Just So Stories di Rudyard Kipling è curata con un'introduzione di Judith Plotz e una prefazione generale del curatore della serie Jan Montefiore. In queste storie ammalianti apprendiamo "Come il cammello ha ottenuto la sua gobba", "Come il leopardo ha ottenuto le sue macchie" e "Come la balena ha ottenuto la sua gola", mentre Rudyard Kipling evoca terre lontane, splendidi giardini di splendidi palazzi, il mare, i deserti, la giungla e tutte le sue creature. Ispirate dalla gioia di Kipling per le eccentricità umane e il mondo animale, e basate sulle storie della buonanotte che raccontava a sua figlia, queste favole sorprendentemente fantasiose esplorano i miti della creazione, la natura delle bestie e le origini del linguaggio e della scrittura. Sono collegate da poesie e disseminate di illustrazioni di Kipling, che contengono barzellette nascoste, simboli ed enigmi. Tra le opere più amate di Kipling, Just So Stories è stata continuamente ristampata dal 1902. Parte di una serie di nuove edizioni delle opere di Kipling in Penguin Classics, questo volume contiene una prefazione generale di Jan Montefiore e un'introduzione di Judith Plotz che esplora le origini delle storie nella vita di Kipling e nel folklore, il loro posto nella letteratura classica per bambini e il loro linguaggio straordinario. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) nacque a Bombay. Nel 1882 iniziò a lavorare come giornalista in India e lì produsse una serie di opere, storie, schizzi e poesie, in particolare Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), che lo resero una celebrità letteraria istantanea quando tornò in Inghilterra nel 1889. Le sue opere più famose includono The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) e Just So Stories (1902). Kipling rifiutò di accettare il ruolo di Poeta Laureato e altri onori civili, ma fu il primo scrittore inglese a ricevere il Premio Nobel, nel 1907. Se ti è piaciuto Just So Stories, potresti apprezzare Selected Tales dei fratelli Grimm, disponibile anche in Penguin Classics.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems —including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim—which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Jan Montefiore (editor) is a professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007).
Judith Plotz (introducer) teaches at George Washington University. Her most recent book is Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (2001).
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Paperback. Condizione: New. A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore.In these bewitching stories we learn 'How the Camel got his Hump', ' How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'How the Whale got his Throat', as Rudyard Kipling conjures up distant lands, beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the deserts, the jungle and all its creatures. Inspired by Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creation, the nature of beasts and the origins of language and writing. They are linked by poems and scattered with Kipling's illustrations, which contain hidden jokes, symbols and puzzles. Among Kipling's most loved works, the Just So Stories have been continually in print since 1902.Part of a series of new editions of Kipling's works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Judith Plotz exploring the origins of the stories in Kipling's own life and in folklore, their place in classic children's literature and their extraordinary language.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. In 1882 he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. If you enjoyed Just So Stories, you might like Selected Tales by the Brothers Grimm, also available in Penguin Classics. Codice articolo LU-9780141442402
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