Just So Stories de Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Autor Rudyard Kipling

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2015 – vârsta până la 12 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: 9781909735682
ISBN-10: 190973568X
Pagini: 122
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: AZILOTH BOOKS

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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

Born in Bombay in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was taken from the exotic sights and sounds of India just five years later and sent to foster parents in England, where he was by his own admission, utterly miserable. When he had children of his own, Kipling made sure that his offspring's young lives were full of mystery and delight, entertaining them by inventing ingenious and amusing explanations to such important childhood questions as how the elephant got its trunk, or the leopard its spots. The original book, published in 1902, contained more than thirty of Kipling's own brilliant illustrations, all of which have been faithfully reproduced in this Aziloth Books edition. Written in comical, grandiloquent style, shot through with beautiful poems and improbably long and hilarious invented words, the 'Just So Stories' have been a firm favourite of children (and adults) for more than a century, and are likely to remain a first choice for bedtime stories for many years to come.

Notă biografică

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.

Descriere

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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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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