How the Just So Stories Were Made - The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children: The Brilliance and Tragedy ... Celebrated Tales for Little Children - Hardcover

Batchelor, John

 
9780300237184: How the Just So Stories Were Made - The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children: The Brilliance and Tragedy ... Celebrated Tales for Little Children
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300237189 ISBN 13: 9780300237184
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classic

“In this concise and remarkable book . . . Batchelor guides us expertly . . . drawing on multiple sources and making intriguing connections between Kipling’s stories for children and for adults.”—John Carey, The Sunday Times 

From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer’s life and work—including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine.
 
Batchelor details the playful challenges the stories made to contemporary society. In his stories Kipling played with biblical and other stories of creation and imagined fantastical tales of animals' development and man's discovery of literacy.
 
Richly illustrated with original drawings and family photographs, this account reveals Kipling’s public and private lives—and sheds new light on a much-loved and tremendously influential classic.

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Formerly a Fellow of New College, Oxford, John Batchelor is an emeritus professor of Newcastle University. His previous books include The Edwardian Novelists and biographies of Joseph Conrad, John Ruskin, Pauline, Lady Trevelyan, and the great Victorian Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300237189
ISBN 13 
9780300237184
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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