El libro de la selva (Clasicos) (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8434872919 ISBN 13: 9788434872912

Publisher: EDICIONES SM, 2005

Synopsis

El libro de la selva, también llamado El libro de las tierras vírgenes, publicado en 1894, es una colección de historias escritas por el británico Rudyard Kipling (30 de diciembre de 1865 en Bombay - 18 de Enero de 1936 en Londres) el primer escritor inglés en ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1907. La historia, que fue inicialmente publicada en revistas entre 1893-1894 y que contaba en algunos casos con ilustraciones del padre de Rudyard, John Lockwood Kipling, se basa en cuentos de animales de la selva india que, de forma antropológica, plantean lecciones morales.

About this title

From the Publisher

Contains the famous Mowgli stories about an abandoned baby raised by wolves and educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle.

About the Author

Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Edition details

• Publisher: EDICIONES SM
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 8434872919
• ISBN 13: 9788434872912
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 240