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Humorous Tales

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Book review
Here in this omnibus edition is a collection of the best among Rudyard Kiplings's humorous Tales for children. They bear proof of Kipling's mastery over prose and lead the little readers to arealm of laughter and amusement, with a dig at this world of pomp and strife.
The book includes The Legend of Mirth, The Taking of Lungtungpen, Moti, Guj-Mutineer, My Sunday at Home, Pig, Alnaschar and the Oxen,The Bull and the Thought, The Finances of the gods, The Master-cook, The Fabulists, Gallio's song and My Lord Elephant.
Paperback / Pages 105

About the author Rudyard Kipling was a poet, novelist and short story write, He was born in bombay. After his schooling in England he moved over to India in 1882, where he began his journalistic career with Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. By the time he returned to England in 1896 he had published many of his classic children's stories that made him highly popular. In 1907, he became the first British auther to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

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