Adventures of Rusty: Collected Stories: A collection of 20 most loved stories about Rusty by award-winning author Ruskin Bond, a must-read novel for nature lovers - Softcover

Bond, Ruskin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143332228 ISBN 13: 9780143332220

Verlag: Puffin, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

From the time he was a boy living with his grandparents in Dehra; surrounded by an assortment of odd animals; people and relatives; to when he gets sent away to school; then makes his way to London and becomes a writer; Rusty&;s had more adventures than we can count.The Adventures of Rusty brings together his best; funniest; most exciting escapades. In these pages there&;s Toto; the monkey that travelled in a bag in a train; an encounter with a leopard; life as a young writer in faraway London; and the return home to roots that were always loved and never forgotten.An evergreen classic of children&;s writing in India; Rusty&;s stories will be enjoyed like never before in this omnibus edition.

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Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers and children's authors and a top novelist.

He wrote his first novel, The Room on the Roof, when he was seventeen which won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novellas, over 500 short stories, as well as various essays and poems, all of which have established him as one of the best-loved and most admired chroniclers of contemporary India.

In 1992 he received the Sahitya Akademi award for English writing, for his short stories collection, "Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra", by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 for contributions to children's literature.

He now lives with his adopted family in Landour near Mussoorie.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Puffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143332228
• ISBN 13: 9780143332220
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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