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  • Published: 9 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141442402
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $17.99

Just So Stories




A new edition of Kipling's well-loved fables, edited by Judith Plotz

The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories which conjure up distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the deserts, the jungle and 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.

  • Published: 9 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141442402
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $17.99

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Emma
Persuasion
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Saint Joan
Botchan
Kusamakura
Love
Annals
Selected Poems
Military Dispatches

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