'The Elephant's Child,''How the Leopead Got His Spots',the incomparable'The Cat that Walked by Himself'and the other fables in this collection were first told by Kipling to an eager nursery audience of his own children.In subject and setting they range from animals to the origins of the alphabet and form prehistoric caves to the junle forests of Africa.Illustrated with playful,riddling drawings and scattered thorugh with rhymes and poems,this is a richly inventive collection,every tale a miniature masterpiece touched with Kiplin's authentic magic.
作者简介:
RUDYARD KIPLING(1865-1936),Poet,short-story writer,journalist and imperialist,Rudyard Kipling remains one of the best chroniclers of the British colonial experience in India.
Readers may also find the following books of interest:Kingsley Amis,Rudyard Kipling and His World(1975);Charles Carrington,Rudyard Kipling;His Life and Work(1970);R.L.Green,Kipling;The Critical Heritage(1971);Rudyard Kipling,Something of Myself(1936;reissued 1977);Harold Orel,Rudyark Kipling;Interuiews and Recollionos(1983);Norman Page,A Kipling Companion(1984);J.I.M.Stewart,Rudyard Kipling (1976);and Angus Wilson,The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling(1977). |
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