Fiction · 1902
Just So Stories
Just So Stories, first published in 1902, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- How the Whale Got His Throat
- How the Camel Got His Hump
- How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
- How the Leopard Got His Spots
- The Elephant’s Child
- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
- The Beginning of the Armadillos
- How the First Letter Was Written
- How the Alphabet Was Made
- The Crab That Played with the Sea
- The Cat That Walked by Himself
- The Butterfly That Stamped
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1865–1936 · Modern
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay, sent to England at five, and returned to India at sixteen to work as a journalist in Lahore and Allahabad, where the stories collected in Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) were written. Back in England from 1889, and for some years in Vermont, he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), Captains Courageous, Kim (1901), the Just So Stories and a great deal of verse. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, the first English-language writer to receive it.
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