Just So Stories (version 2)

Just So Stories (version 2)

by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by LibriVox Community

 — 3 hours, 12 minutes

Just So Stories (version 2)

Just So Stories (version 2)

by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by LibriVox Community

 — 3 hours, 12 minutes

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Overview

The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Read along online and see the illustrations at mainlesson.com. Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. Many of the stories are addressed to "Best Beloved" (they were first written for Kipling's eldest daughter, Josephine, who had died during an outbreak of influenza in 1899), and throughout they use a comically elevated style inspired by the formal speech of India, full of long and improbable-sounding words, some of them made up. As a result, it is a delight to read them aloud, and easy to memorise passages from them. (Summary from Wikipedia)


Product Details

BN ID: 2940170338122
Publisher: LibriVox
Publication date: 08/25/2014
Sales rank: 385,749
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