The Complete Unabridged Just So Stories Audio Book on 3 standard audio cds ( playable in any cd player & fully digitally remastered )
The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is 'How Fear Came' in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes.
The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself, though later editions have included illustrations by other artists.
Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat ballad style. The poem after 'The Elephant's Child' is particularly widely quoted; it opens:
I keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.
Many of the stories are addressed to 'My 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 and place names, some of them made up. |
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