The Cat That Walked by Himself and Other Stories - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0712358099 ISBN 13: 9780712358095

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2010

Synopsis

'HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild-as wild as wild could be-and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.' So begins the story of 'The Cat That Walked by Himself', one of many stories Kipling created to entertain his own children and those of his friends, inventing ingenious explanations for such conundrums as 'How the Camel Got His Hump'. In 1902, he wrote down these gloriously fanciful tales for publication as the Just So Stories. This beautiful gift edition presents the best-loved story 'The Cat that Walked by Himself' alongside 'How the Camel Got His Hump', 'How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin' and 'The Elephant's Child', and reproduces the author's delightfully evocative original illustrations.

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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was one of the most popular writers in English of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the youngest and the first English-speaking Nobel laureate.

Edition details

• Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712358099
• ISBN 13: 9780712358095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80