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Just So Stories de Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Autor Rudyard Kipling
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2009 – vârsta de la 9 până la 11 ani

Pășim într-un univers al curiozității pure, unde explicațiile științifice lasă loc magiei și umorului blând. Just So Stories nu este doar o culegere de basme, ci o invitație la a vedea lumea prin ochii unui copil pentru care fiecare detaliu al naturii — cocoșa cămilei, petele leopardului sau trompa elefantului — ascunde o aventură fantastică. Atmosfera este una de intimitate caldă, reflectând originea acestor texte ca povești de noapte bună spuse de Rudyard Kipling fiicei sale. Găsim aici o limbă engleză jucăușă, plină de onomatopee și repetiții ritmice, care transformă lectura cu voce tare într-o experiență aproape muzicală. Observăm cum autorul își folosește experiența din India și pasiunea pentru folclorul universal pentru a crea mituri moderne. Dacă în The Jungle Book natura era adesea aspră și guvernată de „Legea Junglei”, în Just So Stories ea devine un teren de joacă ingenios. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea identității și a peisajului exotic din Kim va găsi aici aceeași fascinație pentru diversitatea lumii, dar transpusă într-un registru ludic și accesibil. Structura volumului urmărește o progresie de la transformări fizice ale animalelor către invenții umane fundamentale, precum scrisul și alfabetul, oferind o cosmogonie miniaturală pentru cei mici. Este o operă care confirmă geniul narativ al lui Rudyard Kipling, capabil să transforme întrebările simple în literatură perenă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781595476166
ISBN-10: 1595476164
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: NuVision Publications
Locul publicării:United States

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Recomandăm această ediție din colecția Collins Classics oricărui părinte care dorește să cultive imaginația copiilor prin texte clasice, dar și adulților care apreciază rafinamentul stilistic al unui laureat Nobel. Cititorul câștigă o poartă spre o epocă în care poveștile explicau lumea cu umor și blândețe, fiind lectura ideală pentru momentele de liniște de dinaintea somnului.

Despre autor

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) a fost un poet, nuvelist și romancier britanic, născut în Bombay, India. Această moștenire culturală duală i-a marcat profund opera, oferindu-i o perspectivă unică asupra interacțiunii dintre Orient și Occident. Recunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai mari inovatori ai nuvelei, el a devenit, în 1907, cel mai tânăr laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură. Deși opera sa a stârnit controverse politice de-a lungul timpului, geniul său narativ și capacitatea de a crea universuri memorabile pentru copii, precum cel din The Jungle Book, îi asigură un loc permanent în canonul literaturii universale.

Descriere scurtă

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. 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 works speak 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 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.

Notă biografică

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871, Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he saw his parents again. His sense of desertion and despair were later expressed in his story “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” (1888), in his novel The Light that failed (1890), and his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). As late as 1935 Kipling still spoke bitterly of the “House of Desolation” at Southsea: “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt.”At twelve he entered a minor public school, the United Services College at Westward Ho, North Devon. In Stalky and CO. (1899) the myopic Beetle is a self-caricature, and the days at Westward Ho are recalled with mixed feelings. At sixteen, eccentric and literary, Kipling sailed to India to become a journalist. His Indian experiences led to seven volumes of stories, including Soldiers Three (1888) and Wee Willie Winkie (1888).At twenty-four he returned to England and quickly tuned into a literary celebrity. In London he became close friends with an American, (Charles) Wolcott Balestier, with whom he collaborated on what critics called a “dime store novel.” Wolcott died suddenly in 1891, and a few weeks later Kipling married Wolcott’s sister, Caroline. The newlyweds settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote The Jungle Book (1895), and most of Captains Courageous (1897). By this time Kipling’s popularity and financial success were enormous.In 1899 the Kipling’s settled in Sussex, England, where he wrote some of his best books: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pooks Hill (1906). In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. By the time he died, on January 18 1936, critical opinion was deeply divided about his writings, but his books continued to be read by thousands, and such unforgettable poems and stories as “Gunga Din,” “If,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” have lived on in the consciousness of succeeding generations.

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Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on.
Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations.

Recenzii

Kipling has an Aesopian understanding of animals, of our dealings with them and our curious interrelatedness, interdependence, how we can learn about our own strange behaviour.

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How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

Cuprins

How the Whale Got His Throat
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Leopard Got His Spots
The Elephant's Child/How the Elephant got his Trunk
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter Was Written
How the Alphabet Was Made
The Crab That Played with the Sea
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Butterfly That Stamped