Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Whimsical pourquoi tales explaining how animals came to be

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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling

Kipling was the great laureate of the British Empire, whose stories and tales captured the soldier's and administrator's experience of India with incomparable vividness. His prose style, combining colloquial energy with careful craft, influenced virtually every subsequent short story writer.

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