Just So Stories (version 2)

By Kipling, Rudyard

Book Id: WPLBN0002952669
Format Type:
File Size: 92.34 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Just So Stories (version 2)
Author:	Kipling, Rudyard
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children, Animals
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Just So Stories (version 2)
Historic Publication Date:	1902
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
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 http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=kipling&book=just&story=_contents 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)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Children, Animals, Humor, Nature, Short stories