The Complete Just So Stories

Kipling, Rudyard; Philip, Neil (editor)

ISBN 10: 0670851965 / ISBN 13: 9780670851966

Published by Viking, New York, 1993

About this Item

First printing. A fine, unmarked copy in a square, tight binding. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 013149

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Just So Stories
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0670851965
• ISBN 13: 9780670851966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Isabelle Brent
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Presents twelve familiar stories--including the tale of the elephant child with the 'satiable curiosity who journeyed to the Limpopo river--along with two lesser-known pieces.

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems ���including ���Mandalay,��� ���Gunga Din,��� and ���Danny Deever������which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim���which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936